Gerard Manley Hopkins was born on July 28, 1844, in Stratford, Essex, which has since been absorbed into the bustling expanse of Greater London. He entered the world as the eldest of what would become nine children in a prosperous, artistic, and devout High Church Anglican family. His father, Manley Hopkins, was a successful marine insurance adjuster who also served as the Hawaiian consul-general in London and dabble…
“Poetry is in fact speech only employed to carry the meaning and emotion of the poet.”
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Devotional Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
Thomas Edwards Hankinson was born at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 19 June 1805, and died at Stainley Hall near Ripon, Yorkshire, on 6 October 1843. His short life coincided with a period of exceptional change in British religious, literary, and social history: the final decades of the Romantic movement, the Reform crisis, the growth of evangelical and missionary culture, and the opening of the Victorian age. He was neith…
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Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Joy
