Many of the passengers, including five Franciscan nuns, died. Those who were on the ship were escaping Germany due to strict anti-Catholic laws. After submitted it for publication, Hopkins was crushed after receiving news of his rejection. This further ruined his feelings towards poetry. Despite dedicating himself to the strict life of a jesuit, Hopkins failed his Theology exam.
He would be ordained in but he would not further progress in the order. For the next seven years Hopkins carried out his duties teaching and preaching in London, Oxford, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester and Stonyhurst. In , Hopkins was a subminister and teacher at Mount St. A year later, he would become the curate at the Jesuit church on Mount Street in London and that December he would become curate at St. His appointment in as Professor of Greek and Latin at University College, Dublin, left him in prolonged depression.
Born in to a comfortable Anglican family in the London suburb of Stratford, Essex, he was the oldest child of nine, and his father, Manley Hopkins, owned a firm that insured ships against wreck and damage. His son Gerard later wrote two rather long shipwreck poems!
But before becoming a Jesuit he resolved to give up writing poetry, thinking mistakenly that writing poetry would distract him from his Jesuit and priestly life. Then, after a year of teaching young Jesuits in London, in he went to study theology at St.
Happily, in his early Jesuit years Hopkins again felt free to write poems some suggested by his Jesuit superiors , and at St. In these months of poetic genius, , Hopkins also wrote eleven brilliant, music-filled sonnets set near St.
In Hopkins was ordained a priest at St. Gerard Hopkins, S. See Tractarianism. Newman, who had converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in , provided him with the example he was seeking, and in he was received by Newman into the Catholic Church. In he won First-Class degrees in Classics and "Greats" a rare "double-first" and was considered by Jowett to be the star of Balliol. The following year he entered the Society of Jesus; and feeling that the practice of poetry was too individualistic and self-indulgent for a Jesuit priest committed to the deliberate sacrifice of personal ambition, he burned his early poems.
Not until he studied the writings of Duns Scotus in did he decide that his poetry might not necessarily conflict with Jesuit principles. Scotus , a medieval Catholic thinker, argued contrary to the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas that individual and particular objects in this world were the only things that man could know directly, and then only through the haecceitas "thisness" of each object.
In time, he joined the Catholic Church and became a Jesuit priest, which led to his estrangement from his family. Hopkins was deeply troubled by the conflict he felt between his religious obligations and his passionate need to create poetry. In fact, he burned most of his poems and for many years stopped writing them entirely.
He died of typhoid fever at age 44 and achieved posthumous acclaim as a poet through the efforts of his friend Robert Bridges, who later became poet laureate of the United Kingdom. Born into an artistic and even eccentric family, Hopkins developed an early love for sketching and music. He was particularly drawn to the pre-Raphaelite painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the music of Dvorak and Purcell.
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