“I am Happy, so Happy”: Remembering Father Gerard #PoetsArePeopleToo

Today is the anniversary of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s death in 1889. The poet died of typhoid fever while in Ireland. Memorial for Hopkins in St. Aloysius Church, Oxford. Donated by the Paravicini family. 127 years ago, the “blue-bleak ember” of Fr. Gerard’s life fell and broke and revealed an “immortal diamond.” The following post was originally posted here on June 11th, 2015. I was on a plane…

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