Audiobook: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by LibriVox Volunteers

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Author: LibriVox Volunteers Narrator: Linda Leu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 1, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Poetry Publisher's Summary: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, he was ordained in 1877. Upon becoming a Jesuit he burned much of his early verse and abandoned the writing of poetry. However, the sinking in 1875 of a German ship carrying five Franciscan nuns, exiles from Germany, inspired him to write one of his most impressive poems “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” Thereafter he produced his best poetry, including “God’s Grandeur,” “The Windhover,” “The Leaden Echo,” and “The Golden Echo.” (Summary by Bartleby) Editor: Robert S. Bridges (1844-1930)