Person    | Male  Born 28/7/1844  Died 8/6/1889

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Categories: Poetry, Religion

Countries: Ireland

Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted to Catholicism. Was Professor of Classics, University College Dublin, 1884-1889. Unpublished during his life, a friend arranged for his collected verse to be published in 1918. Died in Dublin of typhoid.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - E15

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - NW3

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park...

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - SW15

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