Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991

The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Denis Donoghue
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life
by Robert Bernard Martin

Putnam's, 448 pp., $29.95

Gerard Manley Hopkins died in Dublin on June 8, 1889. Twenty-nine years later, in December 1918, the first collection of his poems was published, assembled and edited by his friend, the poet Robert Bridges. In a prefatory poem Bridges wrote:



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