
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a Jesuit priest whose poetry combined an awareness of material sensuousness with the asceticism of religious devotion. His collected poems, published posthumously in 1918, exercised a profound influence on modern poetry. This volume features...

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This text gives a line-by-line paraphrase in modern English diction, syntax and punctuation, of the major poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The original poems are on the facing page, making this a useful tool for readers unfamiliar with Hopkins.
