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by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins
This site from the Victorian Web offers an overview of the life of Gerard Manley Hopkins. A devout Jesuit priest, Hopkins stopped writing poetry for seven years until a superior suggested that Hopkins write a poem about five nuns who died in a shipwreck. Imagine that you are Hopkins's superior. In the Web Links Activity Log, draft a letter to the poet explaining the reasons why you think he should resume his writing.

 


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