After the death of Jesuit Father Gerard Manley Hopkins in June 1889, almost 30 years would ensue before the poetry for which he is justly celebrated saw the light of day. Another 30 years would elapse ...

BORN a century ago, Gerard Manley Hopkins is a ” Yea-Sayer" for our day. Yet general ignorance of him still prevails: I find one standard anthology of modern poetry dating his death 1898, and another ...

When the young English Jesuit novice Gerard Manley Hopkins submitted his poem The Wreck of the Deutschland to the Jesuit magazine The Month, the editors accepted the unusual thirty-five stanza piece, ...

While Netflix or your podcast feed may be the way you consume spooky tales during the Halloween season, poetry has been making readers squirm out of their skin for centuries. But what if I told you ...

IT WAS in 1804 at Oxford, during the reign of Walter Pater and Benjamin Jowett, that two young Englishmen, Robert Bridges, student at Corpus Christi College, and Gerard Manly Hopkins, student at ...