Gerard Hopkins, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord”
The English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) is regarded as one of the leading Victorian poets for his innovations with prosody (the use of syllables, meter, rhyme, and the pattern of words in poetry). Prone to depression and struggles with religious doubt, Hopkins’ melancholy found expression in his ‘sonnets of desolation.’ Among them is […]
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