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Gerard Manley Hopkins is regarded as one of the Victorian era's greatest poets. His fame came posthumously. Raised in a prosperous and artistic Church of England family, he first read Henry Newman's Apologia pro vita sua at Balliol College, Oxford in 1862 – a document which discussed the author's reasons for converting to Catholicism. Two years later, Newman himself received Hopkins into the Roman Catholic Church. Hopkins soon decided to become a priest himself, and in 1867 he entered a Jesuit novitiate near London.
Click on the image to watch a terrific 1986 BBC documentary on the life and extraordinary poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
While the images are not sharp, the commentary is superb.
Click on the image to watch a terrific 1986 BBC documentary on the life and extraordinary poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
While the images are not sharp, the commentary is superb.