Why did these five Franciscan sisters, the victims of Bismarck’s anti-Catholic persecution which had forced them into exile, have to die, apparently so senselessly?

BORN a century ago, Gerard Manley Hopkins is a ” Yea-Sayer" for our day. Yet general ignorance of him still prevails: I find one standard anthology of modern poetry dating his death 1898, and ...

Paul Mariani brings us the life of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1888), Catholic heir to Milton’s towering Protestant legacy of faith informed by imagination, one of those rare souls for whom service ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s work had an influence on T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. His friend and the poet Robert Bridges kept the ‘A’ manuscript of 74 of Hopkins's poems after his death in Dublin ...

IN at least four ways the correspondence of Gerard Hopkins (edited by Claude Colleer Abbott) forms a valuable contribution to English letters and biography. It elucidates the practice and the ...

His poetry was not well known during his lifetime; but after his death, Gerard Manley Hopkins became one of the leading Victorian poets.

Dear Gerard, Happy Centenary to you and to your book! A hundred years ago your poems were first published in book form, and this June in London 40 Hopkins scholars from around the world gathered ...

The opening line of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “God’s Grandeur,” says it all. It says all we need to know about the world in which we’re living.

The prayerful poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins embraces a saving romance with the eternal.

This study offers insights into Gerard Manley Hopkins, his view of the world, his mind, his interests and his relationship with God.

The strength of this meticulous chronicle of the 19th-century Jesuit is the author’s focus on the inner life of a poet who was critically acclaimed after his death and almost unknown in his ...