GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889) was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.
No staid, conventional Victorian, Hopkins was very interested in ways of rejuvenating poetic language. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his invention of sprung rhythm and use of imagery) established him as an innovative writer of verse. He regularly placed familiar words into new and surprising contexts, and often employed compound and unusual word combinations. As he wrote to his friend poet Robert Bridges, "No doubt, my poetry errs on the side of oddness…"
His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Intense, vital, and individual, his writing is the "terrible crystal" through which the soul -- the inscape, the nature of things -- may be illuminated.
Twentieth century poets such as W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Charles Wright have enthusiastically turned to his work for its inventiveness and rich aural patterning.
The following books are in PDF or ePUB format as indicated:
== POETRY ==
* Poems 1876-1889 (William Ralph, 2014) -- ePUB
* Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 2010). Edited by W.H. Gardner. -- ePUB
== LETTERS & JOURNALS ==
* Correspondence of GMH and Richard Watson Dixon (Oxford UP, 1955). Edited by C. C. Abbott. -- PDF
* Further Letters of GMH (Oxford UP, 1956). Edited by C. C. Abbott. -- PDF
* Journals and Papers of GMH (Oxford UP, 1959). Edited by H. House. -- PDF
* Letters of GMH to Robert Bridges (Oxford UP, 1955). Edited by C. C. Abbott. -- PDF
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