Websites
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This is a journal of articles on Gerard Manley Hopkins. It's like a scholarly fan club, which is just about as nerdy as it gets. In a good way.
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The Victorian Web is a useful website for anyone studying the Victorian period. They have links to biographies, scholarly articles, historical context material, and more. Here's a link to their page on Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Poets.org has a handy, short bio of our favorite Jesuit-priest-turned-poet.
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The Poetry Foundation is an awesome resource. They've got excerpts of some of Hopkins's letters online. It's like reading over his shoulder, only less creepy and annoying!
Video
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This is part 1 in a series about the life of Hopkins.
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Who knew they had YouTube in the nineteenth century?
Audio
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From Archive.org.
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We might not know how Hopkins would have set this poem to music, but the singer Natalie Merchant gave it a shot and did a pretty awesome job. Give it a listen.
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Here's another cool vocal interpretation of the poem.
Images
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Poor Hopkins died at a relatively young age. Here's a picture of him taken in 1888, soon before he died of typhoid fever—one of the more popular fevers to die of during the Victorian period.
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Here's what Hopkins looked like as a very young man. Looks like a guy who's destined for great things. We've seen faces like this at the local coffee shop…
Articles and Interviews
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This is an article that compares Hopkins's poetry (and "Spring and Fall" in particular) to poems by other 19th-century poets.
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Two professor types wrote an article on Hopkins's special meter, which he called "sprung rhythm."
Books
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This 2008 biography of Hopkins was written by Paul L. Mariani. You can preview it here on Google Books, or you can check it out from your local library.
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This is a collection of now-famous essays by critics like F.R. Leavis on Gerard Manley Hopkins. You can preview the book here, or request the book (or individual essays from it) at your local library.