← Gerard Manley HopkinsThe Wreck of the Deutschlandby Gerard Manley HopkinsNarrative poem mourning a shipwreck and invoking divine graceFind 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 HopkinsGod'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→