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| Sprung Rhythm is the most natural of things. |
| —Preface, Poems |
Gerard Manley
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| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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| 1844–89, English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking in 1875 of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo.”—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  h p´k nz from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Poems
Considered an early Modern poet ahead of his Victorian time, Hopkins’s verse is notable for his use of sprung rhythm and intricate use of language and rhyme.
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- Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 28915 to 28987
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