Gerard Manley Hopkins
English Jesuit priest and poet whose posthumously published poetry introduced sprung rhythm and an original intensity of sound. He had no influence in his lifetime but became enormously important to twentieth-century poetry.
Works
- The Wreck of the DeutschlandNarrative poem mourning a shipwreck and invoking divine grace
- God's GrandeurSonnet on the divine grandeur revealed in nature
- The WindhoverSonnet celebrating the beauty and power of a hawk in flight
- Pied BeautySonnet praising the diverse beauty of creation
- Carrion ComfortSonnet expressing spiritual consolation amid despair