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Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet who was born in 1844 and died in 1889
. Seven of his best-known poems are discussed in this study guide. Hopkins, who converted to Catholicism in 1866 and later became a Jesuit priest, is known for his poems’ devotion to God and to his highly innovative and original style. His works were largely unknown until a collection of his poems were posthumously published by his friend Robert Bridges, then the British Poet Laureate, in 1918.Read the free full text, an summary of the collection, a discussion of the poems’ themes, and mini essays about important topics in Hopkins’s Poetry.
