Gerard Manley Hopkins Death Cause and Date

Gerard Manley's Death

Born (Birthday) Jul 28, 1844

Death Date June 8, 1889

Age of Death 44 years

Cause of Death Typhoid Fever

Profession Poet

The poet Gerard Manley died at the age of 44. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Victorian poet and Jesuit priest known for his poetic experimentation with rhythm and imagery. His poems include “Pied Beauty,” “The May Magnificat,” “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” and “The Caged Skylark.”

He never married, but he wrote many letters over the years to a close male friend named Digby Mackworth Dolben.

Quotes

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

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What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

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By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

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I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins Death Cause and Date