Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems Contents
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire
- Binsey Poplars
- The Blessed Virgin Mary Compared to the Air We Breathe
- Carrion Comfort
- Duns Scotus' Oxford
- God's Grandeur
- Harry Ploughman
- Henry Purcell
- Hurrahing in Harvest
- Inversnaid
- I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Synopsis of I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Commentary on I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Language and tone in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Structure and versification in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Imagery and symbolism in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- Themes in I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Synopsis of The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Commentary on The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Language and tone in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Structure and versification in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Imagery and symbolism in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- Themes in The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo
- The May Magnificat
- My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Synopsis of My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Commentary on My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Language and tone in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Structure and versification in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Imagery and symbolism in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- Themes in My Own Heart, Let Me Have More Pity On
- No Worst, There is None
- Patience, Hard Thing!
- Pied Beauty
- The Sea and the Skylark
- Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves
- Spring
- Spring and Fall
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
- The Starlight Night
- That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
- Synopsis of That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Commentary on That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Language and tone in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Structure and versification in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Imagery and symbolism in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Themes in That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire
- Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
- Tom's Garland
- To Seem the Stranger
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty
- The Windhover
- The Wreck of the Deutschland
- Beauty and its purpose
- The beauty, variety and uniqueness of nature
- Christ's beauty
- Conservation and renewal of nature
- God's sovereignty
- The grace of ordinary life
- Mary as a channel of grace
- Nature as God's book
- Night, the dark night of the soul
- Serving God
- Suffering and faith
- The temptation to despair
- The ugliness of modern life
- Understanding evil in a world God has made
Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected poems Timeline
| Year | Historical | Literary | Author |
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| 1839 | First Factory Inspector's report |
Carlyle's Chartism Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle Ellis' The Women of England:Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits |
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| 1840 |
Penny post begins Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort. |
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| 1841 |
The Tories come to power. Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister Punch begins |
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| 1842 |
Jowett becomes tutor at Balliol College, Oxford Chartist riots. Report on Sanitary Conditions of Labouring Population Mudie's Lending Library opens Illustrated London News begins |
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| 1843 | Theatre Regulation Act |
Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present Ruskin's Modern Painters (vol. 1) |
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| 1844 |
Co-operative Society founded in Rochdale Factory Act (women and children) Expansion of railways across Britain |
Disraeli's Coningsby, or The New Generation published | Hopkins born on 28th July |
| 1845 |
John Henry Newman converts to Catholicism Financial speculation in Railways Onset of the Irish potato famine The first Anglican sisterhood, Park Village, is founded in the Christ Church parish |
Disraeli's Sybil, or The Two Nations published E. A. Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination |
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| 1846 |
Repeal of Corn Laws Famine in Ireland Whigs come to Power |
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| 1847 |
Railway reaches Dorchester Ten Hours' Factory Act |
Disraeli's Tancred | |
| 1848 |
Chartist demonstrations in London following by the collapse of the Chartist movement Democratic Revolutions in Europe. Cholera epidemic Public Health Act Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded |
Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto Newman's Loss and Gain |
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| 1849 | Bedford College for Women founded | Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke | |
| 1850 |
Roman Catholic hierarchy established Public Libraries Act |
Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter |
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| 1851 |
Great Exhibition in London Taylor Mill's The Enfranchisement of Women |
Ruskin's Stones of Venice Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| 1852 | Hopkins' family move to Hampstead | ||
| 1853 |
Cholera epidemic Crimean War |
Yonge's Heir of Redclyffe | |
| 1854 | Onset of Crimean War | Hopkins attends Highgate Grammar School | |
| 1855 |
Daily Telegraph Repeal of stamp duty on newspapers |
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South | |
| 1856 | Crimean War ends | Dickens, Little Dorrit | |
| 1857 |
Railway extended to Weymouth Indian Mutiny Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act |
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Hughes' Tom Brown's School days Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh |
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| 1858 |
Ballantyne's Coral Island English Woman's Journal begins George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life |
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| 1859 |
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species published Rise of movement for Home Rule in Ireland |
Smiles' Self Help published Mill's On Liberty |
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| 1860 | Cornhill Magazine begins | ||
| 1861 |
Death of Prince Consort American Civil War begins |
Dickens, Great Expectations Beeton's Book of Household Management Wood's East Lynne |
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| 1862 | Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret | ||
| 1863 | The Oxford Declaration published | Kingsley's The Water Babies | Hopkins enters Balliol College, Oxford University |
| 1864 | John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua | ||
| 1865 |
American Civil War ends Women's Suffrage Campaign Transatlantic cable laid Joseph Lister establishes antiseptic surgery Completion of St. Pancras' railway station Slavery is abolished in the USA |
Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism | |
| 1866 |
Cholera epidemic Former slaves granted citizenship and equal rights in America Ku Klux Klan founded |
Swinburne's Poems and Ballads (dedicated to Rossetti) published | Newman receives Hopkins into the Catholic Church in October |
| 1867 |
Second Reform Act Fenian Rising in Ireland |
Marx's Das Kapital published George Eliot's Felix Holt, the Radical |
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| 1868 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister | Hopkins enters the Jesuit order | |
| 1869 |
Opening of Suez Canal Mill's The Subjection of Women |
Arnold's Culture and Anarchy Blackmore's Lorna Doone |
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| 1870 |
Education Act: free education in new board schools First Married Women's Property Act |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems | Studies at Stoneyhurst |
| 1871 |
Trade Union Act Darwin's The Descent of Man |
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| 1872 | MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin | ||
| 1873 |
Mill's Autobiography Pater's Studies in the Renaissance |
Hopkins teaches at Roehampton | |
| 1874 | Hopkins studies at St. Bueno's near St. Asaph, North Wales | ||
| 1875 | Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury | Hopkins writes The Wreck of the Deutschland | |
| 1876 |
Invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell Queen Victorian proclaimed Empress of India |
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| 1877 | Hopkins writes God's Grandeur; The Windhover; Pied Beauty | ||
| 1878 |
Gramophones first produced by Thomas Edison Newman made Cardinal Revolutions in Europe |
Hardy's Return of the Native published Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore |
Hopkins teaching at Stonyhurst and London |
| 1879 | Electric lightbulb invented | George Meredith's The Egoist published | Hopkins in Oxford. Writes Binsey Poplars; Duns Scotus' Oxford etc |
| 1880 | (-1881) First Boer War, also known as the Transvaal War | Hardy's The Trumpet Major is published | Hopkins writes Felix Randal. Lives in Liverpool |
| 1881 | First Anglo-Boer War |
Hardy's A Laodicean published Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets Uncle Remus series, J C Harris |
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| 1882 |
First commercial production of electricity Married Women's Property Act, enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings |
Hopkins writes Ribblesdale. Lives in Stonyhurst | |
| 1883 | Fabian Society founded |
Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathrustra |
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| 1884 |
Ruskin's Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth-Century Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain |
Hopkins goes to University College, Dublin as professor |
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| 1885 | Haggard's King Solomon's Mines | Hopkins writes the Terrible Sonnets | |
| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrating 50 years of her reign | Haggard's Allan Quartermain | |
| 1888 |
Jack the Ripper murders five women in London Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society |
Arnold's Essays in Criticism (Second Series) | Hopkins writes That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire |
| 1889 | Newman dies | Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins | Hopkins writes Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord; in April contracts typhoid fever, then dies on June 8th |
| 1890 |
First underground railway in London Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough (first two vols; complete 13 vols., -1915) First of the Jim Crow laws passed to segregate blacks from whites in the South Southern states pass series of laws to restrict black voting rights |
William Morris' News from Nowhere Emily Dickinson, Poems |
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| 1891 | William Morris, Kelmscott Press | Gissing's New Grub Street | |
| 1892 | Daimlers sell their first motor car | ||
| 1893 | Independent Labour Party formed | ||
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality | ||
| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | ||
| 1899 |
( - 1902) Second Boer War Irish Literary Theatre founded |
Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken Pinero's Trelawney of the 'Wells' Symons' The Symbolist Movement in literature Wells' Tales of Space and Time |
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| 1900 |
Most children under eleven attending elementary school Daily Express founded Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams |
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| 1901 |
Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII king First transatlantic radio communication by Marconi |
Wells' The First Men in the Moon | |
| 1902 |
Balfour Education Act establishes state system of secondary schools Second Boer War ends |
Bennett's Anna of the Five towns Mare's Songs of Childhood Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles Kipling's Just So Stories |
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| 1903 |
Wilbur and Orville Wright make first powered flight New York-London news service begins using wireless telegraphy Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union |
Butler's The Way of All Flesh James' The Ambassadors The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. du Bois |
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| 1904 |
Entente Cordiale settles colonial differences between UK and France Offset printing invented Abbey Theatre, Dublin, founded Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life |
Hardy's The Dynasts, Part I published J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan first performed on stage James' The Golden Bowl |
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| 1905 |
Start of suffragette agitation and first suffragettes imprisoned Einstein's special theory of relativity Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality |
Doyle's The Return of Sherlock Holmes Wells' Kipps |
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| 1906 | Liberal landslide in general election; 29 Labour MPs elected and Labour Party constituted | Mare's Poems | |
| 1907 | Pablo Picasso introduces cubism | ||
| 1908 |
Old Age Pensions Act introduces state pensions for the over-seventies Ford's first Model T car sold in Britain Pathe's first regular newsreel First aeroplane flight in Britain |
Edmund Gosse's Father & Son published Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale Wells' The War in the Air |
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| 1909 |
North Pole reached by Robert Peary (US) NAACP founded |
Galsworthy's Strife Pound's Personae |
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| 1910 |
Edward VII dies. George V becomes king South Wales Miners' strike First post-impressionist exhibition in London First feature-length films Freud's On Psychoanalysis Collapse of cotton farming due to boll weevil damage |
Galsworthy's Justice Wells' The History of Mr Polly |
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| 1911 |
Ford Model T assembly plant opened in Manchester Beatrice and Webb's Poverty Der Blaue Reiter group of expressionist artists formed in Munich Frazer's The Golden Bough (11 vols.-1915; first two vols., 1890) Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole Suffragette riots in London |
Wells' The New Machiavelli | |
| 1912 |
First Post-Impressionism Exhibition in London Titanic sinks Widespread strikes in Britain Women's Franchise Bill rejected by the House of Commons; suffragettes riot in London Some 400 cinemas in London; establishment of British Board of Film Censors |
Bridges' Poetical Works Mare's The Listeners Georgian Poetry, ed. Edward Marsh Pound's Ripostes Mann's Death in Venice |
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| 1913 |
Suffragette Emily Davies dies after throwing herself under the King's horse at the Derby Freud's Totem and Taboo; also Interpretation of Dreams Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring 'Cat and Mouse' Act House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule Bill but rejected by the House of Lords Suffragette deonstrations |
Marcel Proust publishes first of the seven volumes of A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) (last volume, 1927) | |
| 1914 |
August: Great War breaks out (to November 1918) Irish Home Rule Act passed but later suspended because of war World War One - although segregated, black soldiers enlisted to fight in US armed forces |
Pound's Des Imagistes | |
| 1915 |
War intensifies with huge losses Zeppelin attacks on London Sinking of Lusitania Einstein's general theory of relativity Second Battle of Ypres |
Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps Kafka's Metamorphosis Maugham's Of Human Bondage Some's Imagist Poets: An Anthology, ed. Amy Lowell (further Imagist anthologies followed in 1916 and 1917) Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier |
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| 1916 |
Easter Rising, Dublin Conscription introduced Battle of the Somme Theories of shell-shock develop Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious Battle of Verdun Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister The Great Migration to the north begins (US) |
Brighouse's Hobson's Choice Wells' Mr Britling Sees it Through |
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| 1917 |
USA enters war Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Russian Revolution (March) Freud's Introduction to Psychoanalysis Abdication of Czar Nicholas II Russian Revolution (October) |
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| 1918 |
End of the Great War: Armistice, 11 November Rutherford splits atom Representation of the People Act (4th Reform Bill) gives the vote to all men over twenty-one and women over thirty Stopes' Married Love; Parenthood Fisher Education Act raises school-leaving age to fourteen Influenza pandemic, kills over 20 million people world-wide by 1920 Execution of Czar Nicholas II Vote given to all men over twenty-one and women over thirty |
Joyce's Exiles Thomas' Last Poems |
Robert Bridges publishes first edition of Hopkins' poems |
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