Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins is a reflection of his time period because his work represents realism, his work was different from what was expected, and his work had to do with religion. Although Hopkins is considered as one of the great poets of the past, he was not that appreciated during his time period. The only reason that we have his work today is because his friends held on to his work after his death and …

…people and it also caused more people to write about things that were on their minds instead of writing only of what they knew and had already experienced. Works Cited Bergonzi, Bernard. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Macmillan: New York. 1977. Bloom, Harold ed. Modern Critical Reviews: Gerard Manley Hopkins. Chelsea House Publishers: New York. 1986. Fairwhether, Eugent, The Oxford Movement. Oxford University Press: London. 1964. Sulloway, Alison. Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper. Columbia University Press: New York. 1972