The Windhover - G M Hopkins
The Windhover The Poet Reverend Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest. A Victorian: His life span is in the Victorian era: 1837-1901 A Painter-poet: Son of a poet, he had a passion in painting as well, a feature which was to help him in his poetic endeavours. A Representative of Modernism: Hopkins’ poems were published posthumously, with initiative taken by Robert Bridges who decided to publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies. The poems influenced many of the leading 20th-century poets: T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day-Lewis Homosexual inclinations: Hopkins found it hard to accept his own sexual attraction to other men. He developed an infatuation for Digby Mackworth Dolben , an English poet who died young from drowning. Spiritual struggle: He exercised a ...