Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, who became famous as a leading Victorian poets posthumously after few of his mature poems was published by Robert Bridges in anthologies. By 1930, Hopkins's works were being considered one of the most original literary advances of 19th century that intrigued even such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. His prosody is know for sprung rhythm while his praise of God used vivid imagery.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Glory be to God for dappled things.

- Pied Beauty

• The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

- letter to Robert Bridges, August 14, 1879

• 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.
- Inversnaid

• The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

- God's Grandeur

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche