Sunday, May 6, 2012

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Prophet & Exile||GodSpy.com

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He was a small, pale, intelligent man beloved for his wit and eccentricities. He had taken an impressive double first at Oxford in Classics, an honor that might have led to a sterling academic career, but his conversion to Catholicism, inspired and encouraged by the famous English convert, John Henry Newman, came at a time when 'crossing the Tiber' was tantamount to treason.

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