Gerard Manley Hopkins
Channel: 宇宙のすべての知識 プリンシピア
Date: 14/02/2019

Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12523 / CC BY SA 3.0

#1844_births
#1889_deaths
#People_from_Stratford,_London
#People_educated_at_Highgate_School
#Alumni_of_Heythrop_College
#Alumni_of_Balliol_College,_Oxford
#People_associated_with_University_College_Dublin
#Anglo-Welsh_poets
#Converts_to_Roman_Catholicism_from_Anglicanism
#19th-century_English_Jesuits
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use of imagery) established him as an innovative writer of verse. Two of his major themes were nature and religion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex (now in Greater London), as the eldest of probably nine children to Manley and Catherine (Smith) Hopkins. He was christened at the Anglican church of St John's, Stratford. His father founded a marine insurance firm and at one time served as Hawaiian consul-general in London. He was also for a time churchwarden at St John-at-Hampstead. His grandfather was the physician John Simm Smith, a university colleague of John Keats, and close friend of the eccentric philanthropist Ann Thwaytes.

As a poet, Hopkins's father published works including "A Philosopher's Stone and Other Poems" (1843), "Pietas Metrica" (1849), and "Spicelegium Poeticum, A Gathering of Verses by Manley Hopkins" (1892). He reviewed poetry for "The Times" and wrote one novel. Catherine (Smith) Hopkins was the daughter of a London physician, particularly fond of music and of reading, especially German philosophy, literature and the novels of Dickens. Both parents were deeply religious high-church Anglicans. Catherine's sister, Maria Smith Giberne, taught her nephew Gerard to sketch. The interest was supported by his uncle, Edward Smith, his great-uncle Richard James Lane, a professional artist,...