General Manley Hopkins was the eldest son of an exceptional family; the family was large into arts and music, father publishing mathematics and poetry books, mother reading German philosophy, and we're all devoted to the Church of England. Hopkins went Oxford in 1863 after superior work at Highgate School. In 1866 he rejected his family's religion and joined the Roman Catholic Church, and in 1868 he joined the Jesuit order, beginning training for priesthood, he burn all his youthful poems. Later Hopkins study theology in Wales, and wrote a series of lyrics where he celebrated his sense of God in nature. Hopkins Sheraton poems with you people and made little after to have his works published, although he dreamed of a larger audience. In 1877,
