The Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Posthumous Poetic Legacy
Poets involved
What happened
In June 1889, the brilliant English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins died of typhoid fever in Dublin, Ireland, leaving behind a collection of highly radical poems that remained entirely unpublished during his lifetime. Hopkins had converted to Catholicism under the influence of the Oxford Movement and subsequently burned his early verse to commit himself fully to the Jesuit order. His close friend Robert Bridges eventually edited and published his poems decades later in 1918, revealing to the world an extraordinary, entirely unique poetic voice.
Literary impact
Hopkins revolutionized twentieth-century poetry through his invention of 'sprung rhythm', designed to mimic natural speech, and his concepts of 'inscape' and 'instress'—the unique inner divine essence of things. His poetry beautifully fused intense Ignatian spiritual meditation with highly innovative modern verse techniques.
Source: Wikipedia
