Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life

'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.'
John Carey, Sunday Times

In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published just a single poem - only a few close friends were aware he wrote. Much of his work was burnt by fellow Jesuits on his death. And yet Hopkins is today a huge figure in English literature. Homosexual but terribly repressed, he channeled his emotions toward nature and God, with profound results. Princeton emeritus professor M…