GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-89)
--Religious Controversy/Sexual Politics
--Bio:
+Early Days; Oxford (1863-1867)
+Journals: Observing nature (1524/1659)
+The confession notes
+Catholicism: the Real Presence
Soc. of Jesus / Jesuit (1868); burns poetry

The Welsh Sonnets:
"God's Grandeur" (1516/ 1651)
+ A proto-environmental poem
+ Sprung rhythm

March | dust | Ap ril | show ers
Bring | forth | Spring |flow ers

"As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
+Translating and unpacking images
+Structure: octave (volta/turn) sestet
+ Inscape , instress, pitch ( haecceitas or thisness), and stalling

"The Windhover"
+Word patterns = inscape
Bird's flight patterns =inscape

Ireland and the "Terrible" Sonnets:
+Loss of Faith?
+Alienation & Self-Loathing

"I wake and feel the fell of dark"

"Carrion Comfort"