Born Stratford, Essex, England, July 28, 1844.

Raised in a prosperous and artistic family.

Attended Balliol College, Oxford.

Hopkins decided to become a priest.

In 1867 entered a Jesuit novitiate near London.

Hopkins burnt all of the poetry he had written to date, and would not write again until 1875.

Hopkins began to write again in 1875 after a German ship, the Deutschland, was wrecked.

Hopkins poem "The Wreck of the Deutschland" introduced what Hopkins called "sprung rhythm."

In 1884 he became a professor of Greek at the Royal University College in Dublin.

Died from typhoid fever in 1889.



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