A commentary on Hopkins’s poem by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘The Windhover’ was written by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) in 1877, but, like many of Hopkins’s poems, was not published until 1918, long after his death. It’s one of his most widely anthologised poems and some analysis of it may help readers to […]
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Five Fascinating Facts about Gerard Manley Hopkins
The life of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins told through five great pieces of trivia 1. He kept a record of the dirty things he got up to. In his diaries, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) would write ‘O. H.’ whenever he had succumbed to the temptation to, shall we say, pleasure […]