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    Running Head  

    Literature Insights
    http//www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk
    General Editor: Charles Moseley

    Gerard Manley
    Hopkins: Selected
    Poems
    John Gilroy

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    Contents

    A Note on the Author


    Acknowledgments
    Part 1. Life and Times
    1.1 Early life and Schooldays
    1.2 Oxford
    1.3 Conversion to Catholicism
    1.4 Hopkins the Jesuit
    Part 2. Strategies
    2.1 Introduction
    2.2 Inscape
    2.3 Inscape of Poetry
    2.4 Instress
    2.5 Sprung Rhythm
    Part 3. Reading Hopkins
    3.1 ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’
    Part the first
    Part the second
    3.2 Selected Poems
    Part 4. Reception
    Part 5. Bibliography
    5.1 List of Abbreviations Used in the Text
    5.2 Recommended Reading
    Hyperlinked Materials
    Other Literature Insights: Now Available
    Part 1. Life and Times

    1.1 Early life and Schooldays

    Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 at Stratford in Essex, the eldest of nine
    children, several of whom were talented. Two of his brothers, Arthur and Everard
    grew up to be artists and illustrators for prominent publications such as Punch and the
    Illustrated London News. A brother, Lionel, became a Consul in China and an expert
    on the Chinese language, while a sister, Grace, had skills as a musician and com-
    poser. The children’s father, Manley Hopkins, acted as Consul-General for Hawaii,
    pursued a profession as a marine insurance adjuster and was, by degrees, mathemati-
    cian, poet, novelist and reviewer. His wife, Kate, was well-educated with literary and
    musical tastes and a competence in languages, and his sister, Ann (‘Aunt Annie’), a
    talented painter, produced the portrait of G. M.
    Hopkins at the age of fourteen which is now
    in the National Portrait Gallery, London. In
    Gerard, it seems, all these various accomplish-
    ments in language, in literature, art and music
    came together to produce in the course of time
    the unique corpus of poetry that would make
    him famous.
      The Hopkins family was solidly middle-
    class and Anglican in religion. From child-
    hood, Gerard shared their devoutness which
    deepened as he matured, leading finally to his
    conversion to Catholicism and ordination into
    the Roman Catholic priesthood. When he was
    eight years old the family moved from Stratford
    ‘Gerard Manley Hopkins’
    to fashionable Hampstead in North London
    by Anne Eleanor Hopkins (1859) and he was sent to Highgate School. There he
    National Portrait Gallery, London became friendly with, among others, Marcus

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