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Gerard Manley Hopkins

1844 - 1889

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature. Only after his death did Robert Bridges publish a few of Hopkins's mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare for wider acceptance of his style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard Manley Hopkins has received more than 1,271,197 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Gerard Manley Hopkins is the 4,478th most popular writer (down from 4,239th in 2019), the 3,197th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,139th in 2019) and the 364th most popular British Writer.

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  • 49.07

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.19

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  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges
Correspondence, Jesuits, English Poets
1935
Poems
Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation, Jesuits
1918
Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poetry
1953
Poems and prose
Poems (Hopkins, Gerard Manley), English poetry
1953
Selections from the note-books of Gerard Manley Hopkins
1945
Hopkins
Translations into Portuguese, Poetry, English Christian poetry
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gerard Manley Hopkins ranks 4,478 out of 7,302. Before him are Choʻlpon, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Julia Quinn, Tracy Chevalier, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, and Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak. After him are Sofia Yablonska, Cecil Day-Lewis, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Sakyo Komatsu, Itzik Feffer, and Turan Dursun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Gerard Manley Hopkins ranks 83. Before him are Robert Themptander, Detlev von Liliencron, Alois Riehl, Dimitrios Rallis, Mutsu Munemitsu, and Camille Lemonnier. After him are Vladan Đorđević, Ludwig von Falkenhausen, Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Lewis Powell, Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn, and Verney Lovett Cameron. Among people deceased in 1889, Gerard Manley Hopkins ranks 69. Before him are Domingo Santa María, Gustav Lange, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, August Ahlqvist, José Joaquín Pérez, and Michele Amari. After him are Juan Montalvo, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Warren De la Rue, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, and Dmitry Tolstoy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gerard Manley Hopkins ranks 3,197 out of 8,785. Before him are Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1879), Eddie Marsan (1968), David Sylvian (1958), Nicholas Hoult (1989), Lonnie Donegan (1931), and Rita Tushingham (1942). After him are Brendan Rodgers (1973), John Hoppner (1758), Martin Parr (1952), Mick Jones (1955), Walter Savage Landor (1775), and Prince George of Cambridge (2013).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Gerard Manley Hopkins ranks 364. Before him are Sophie Kinsella (1969), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), Quentin Crisp (1908), Arthur Ransome (1884), Joe Abercrombie (1974), and Robert Greene (1558). After him are Walter Savage Landor (1775), Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810), Alan Bennett (1934), Isaac Watts (1674), George Chapman (1559), and Lydia Becker (1827).

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