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.
dearest deep freshness lives
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things . . . ,
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.
creation lines miss
O then if in my lagging lines you miss / The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation.
bereft nature weeds wet wilderness wildness
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.