The world is charged with the grandeur of God. 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. Every ...

After the death of Jesuit Father Gerard Manley Hopkins in June 1889, almost 30 years would ensue before the poetry for which he is justly celebrated saw the light of day. Another 30 years would elapse ...

Last night I finished reading Paul Mariani’s astonishing new biography, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life, which we reviewed in a “Bookings” section of our magazine a few weeks ago. It is simply ...

The best professor I ever had was Jesuit Fr. Ignatius Burrill who taught us English at Mundelein Seminary and introduced me to Jesuit Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins. To paraphrase Gale Sayers in his salute ...

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 theory ...

In his sonnet “On His Blindness” Milton laments the loss that impedes “that one talent which is death to hide,” now “lodged with me, useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my Maker.” God ...

This book is both timely and original. It is timely because 2018 is the centennial of the publication of Hopkins’ first book, and original because it focuses on Hopkins’ texts more than on commentary, ...

In celebration of Jewish Book Month, The Arty Semite is partnering with the Jewish Education Service of North America (JESNA) and the Jewish Book Council to present “30 Days, 30 Texts,” a series of ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), who became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism at the age of 22, is one of the most frequently reprinted poets in English, but he left behind an ...

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 another ...