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Gerard Manley Hopkins

1844–1889 · England · Victorian

A Jesuit priest, Hopkins wrote startlingly original poems about nature and faith using a rhythm he called “sprung rhythm”. Almost none were published in his lifetime; his friend Robert Bridges brought them out in 1918.

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Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Public-domain poems, free to read and print.

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Are Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems free to read?

Yes. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 5 of them here or as a flip book.

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Poems (1918).

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