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Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889

Born in Stratford, Essex. He was educated at Oxford where he converted to Roman Catholicism. He entered the Jesuit order and worked in parishes in London, Oxford and Glasgow. He was sent to Dublin where he was Professor of Classics at University College Dublin. He didn’t particularly like Dublin, Ireland, the Irish or their politics. Most of his work was unpublished until after his death. His works include Duns Scotus’s Oxford, Heaven-Haven, The Wreck of the Deutschland, The Windover, Pied Beauty, The Loss of the Eurydice and Binsey Poplars Felled. He is buried in Dublin.

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