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Gerard Manley Hopkins' "terrible" Sonnets
In the mid 1800's a very spiritual poet was born. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born July 28, 1844 to Manley and Catherine (Smith) Hopkins, the first of their nine children (Drabble 473). His parents were High Church Anglicans, and his father had just published a volume of poetry the year before (Drabble 473). He was ordained as a Jesuit priest who wrote beautiful poe ....
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.... This and other experiences during the time while he wrote his "terrible" sonnets allow us to assume that the poems are his own religious confessions. "More important, however, was his sense that his prayers no longer reached God" (Benzel 371).
Hopkins life-long best friend Robert Bridges received several letters from Hopkins while he wrote the "terrible" sonnets. Hopkins wrote to Bridges that the sonnets "came to him like inspirations unbidden and against my will" (Leavis 5296 ....
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