In Our Time - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Hopkins (1844-89), a Jesuit priest who at times burned his poems and at others insisted they should not be published. His main themes are how he, nature and God relate to each other. His friend Robert Bridges preserved Hopkins' poetry and, once printed in 1918, works such as The Windhover, Pied Beauty and As Kingfishers Catch Fire were celebrated for their inventiveness and he was seen as a major poet, perhaps the greatest of the Victorian age.

With

Catherine Phillips
R J Owens Fellow in English at Downing College, University of Cambridge

Jane Wright
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol

and

Martin Dubois
Assistant Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature at Durham University

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Published on Thursday, 21st March 2019.

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