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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
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Priest and poet, G.M. Hopkins was born at Stratford in Essex, the eldest of eight children. His father ran a successful marine insurance business in London. The family moved to Hampstead in 1852. Hopkins attended Highgate School where he demonstrated great academic and artistic talent, and where he won a prize for his first surviving poem, 'The Escorial'. In 1863 he entered Balliol College, Oxford where he was a pupil of Walter Pater. He wrote much poetry during this time including 'Heaven-Haven..
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I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
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