Birthday of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Naming the Days

Not one of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 -1889) have been revealed throughout his lifetime. In 1939, W. H. Auden declared him to be a serious poet and that commendation has stood the check of time. Born into an English Anglican household, Hopkins grew to become a Catholic and was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1877. He was very taken with the sacramental precept whereby atypical objects and experiences can turn into an indication of the Divine. For Hopkins, consideration was a type of prayer and he skilled his senses on the pure world. The Creator spoke to him by creation.

Quotes

Two phrases from his poetry say it effectively:

• “The world is charged with the grandeur of God
  It’s going to flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
  — “God’s Grandeur”

• “For Christ performs in ten thousand locations,
  Beautiful in limbs, and beautiful in eyes not his
  To the Father by the options of males’s faces.”
  — “As Kingfishers Catch Hearth”

Books

A tremendous biography of Hopkins by Robert Bernard Martin: Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Non-public Life

Poetry

A set of poetry and different items by Hopkins: Hopkins: The Mystic Poets, together with the excerpt, Hopkins’s poem “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Hearth and of the Consolation of the Resurrection”

Private Exporations

Rejoice Gerard Manley Hopkins’s birthday by giving your full consideration to an object close by or by taking a stroll in nature. Discover indicators of the Divine Presence and provides thanks in a method that’s most significant to you.