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programs hello Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889, has been called the greatest Victorian poet

for his vivid imagery and his innovation with works such as The Windhover, Pine Beauty and

as Kingfishers catch fire. It was a Jesuit priest and his poems

explore how he, nature and God relate to each other and what happens when those

relationships are strained. He either couldn't or wouldn't have them published though. We know of

them thanks to a friend who became the poet laureate and who revealed them 30 years after Hopkins

death in the age not of Tennyson and Browning, but of T.S. Elliot and Ezra Pound.

We'd be to discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins R. Catherine Phillips, the R.J. Owens fellow in English at Downing College University of Cambridge, Martin Dubois, Assistant Professor

in 19th Century Literature at Durham University, and Jane Wright, Senior Lecturer in English

Literature at the University of Bristol.

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