Poems and Prose

A significant influence on contemporary poetry. Hopkins is often regarded as the best English poet to have lived during the Victorian era yet his works werent made public until 1918 twenty-nine years after his passing. He was a product of the nineteenth century in many ways but his audience was in the twentieth. His work has had a significant impact on contemporary English verse and challenges any simple presumptions about what the language of poetry can and cannot do. Poems of spiritual struggle like The Wreck of the Deutschland and the sonnets of dissolution as well as poetry that glorify Gods created universe like Pied Beauty Gods Grandeur and The Windhover have the dramatic impact that comes from discovering the English languages beauty once again.