Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Reverend Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ
Church	Latin Church
Orders
Ordination	September 1877
Personal details
Born	(1844-07-28)28 July 1844 Stratford, Essex, England
Died	8 June 1889(1889-06-08) (aged 44) Dublin, Ireland
Buried	Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Occupation	Poet Jesuit priest academic
Education	Highgate School
Alma mater	Heythrop College, London Balliol College, Oxford

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.

Only after his death did Robert Bridges publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare for wider acceptance of his style. By 1930 Hopkins's work was seen as one of the most original literary advances of his century. It intrigued such leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis.