← Gerard Manley HopkinsGod's Grandeurby Gerard Manley HopkinsSonnet on the divine grandeur revealed in natureFind on Amazon↗About the authorGerard Manley HopkinsEnglish 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.More by Gerard Manley HopkinsThe Wreck of the DeutschlandNarrative poem mourning a shipwreck and invoking divine grace→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→