Poetry Afternoons with lecturer Michael King: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Wed Dec 04 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC+00:00

1 Holywell Hill | St Albans

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Poetry Afternoons with lecturer Michael King: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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We are delighted to announce our next Poetry Lecture Workshop will explore selected poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
About this Event

We are delighted to announce our next Poetry Lecture Workshop will explore selected poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by John Stammers.

Tea and coffee will be provided throughout the session.


About the book~

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was born in Stratford.
He attended Balliol College, Oxford where he befriended the future Poet Laureate Robert Bridges. While at Balliol he converted to Catholicism and after graduating he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained in 1877. Having burned his early poems on entering the Church, Hopkins eventually took up writing again but apart from a few poems that appeared in periodicals he was not published during his own lifetime.
Since the publication of his poems in 1918 he has become one of the best known poets of the Victorian age and his are among the greatest poems written on the subject of faith and doubt.

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1 Holywell Hill, 1 Holywell Hill, St Albans, United Kingdom

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GBP 9.38 to GBP 26.16

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