Gerard Hopkins
Gerard Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJwas an English poet, convert to Catholicism, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosodyand his use of imagery established him after his death as an innovative writer of religious verse...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 July 1844
green storms swing
Where no storms come, / Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, / And out of the swing of the sea.
cries dead dearest lament letters lives sent
And my lament / Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent / To dearest him that lives alas! away.
dearest deep freshness lives
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . ,