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Young Hopkins Hopkins as a Jesuit Priest

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Poet and Priest

1844-1889







His Life through his Poetry

With recordings of his poems by Shaun MacLoughlin, Claire Marchionne, Paul Scofield, Edward Petherbridge and a Chorus of Actors.

A Hopkins Poetry Workshop

Sharing my love of his poetry; based on three BBC Programmes I have produced on Hopkins, on a workshop I gave at the Actor's Centre in London and most recently on Gerard Manley Hopkins, His Life through his Poetry, the CD I produced with Claire Marchionne.

Notes by Professor Helen Gardner

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We recommend the Oxford Edition and in particular Sean Street's account of The Wreck of the Deutschland, which he was inspired to write from hearing my production of Paul Scofield's reading for BBC Radio 3.  We also highly recommend Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition by Professor Helen Gardner: