Professor Smart takes as his starting point Eve Sedgwick’s analysis of Gothic conventions and personal history, and while I will make a small claim near the end for a Gothic dimension in Hopkins’ life, he wants rather to focus on Hopkins's language and his last years in Dublin.

Bruno Gaurier examines the Gerard Manley HopkinsSermons to see how they influenced his poetry and his role as a Priest. Gerard Manley Hopkins is mostly and at most known around the world as a poet. There has been until now some discussion and argument about the link – or the non-linkage at all – between his poetry and his personal commitments, above all his becoming a Catholic and assuming priesthood by the Jesuits. I found several themes linking the sermons with the poetry and I will present 3 of these today

Bruno Guarier : An Examination of Hopkins and his Sermons

Hopkins and Hiberno English

Poet Desmond Egan, artistic director of the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literary Festival explores Hopkins and hiberno-english in a wide ranging discussion of Hopkins' writing as well as Irish writers and spoken English in Ireland. Surely there must be some explanation for this preponderance of writers of Irish ancestry among the important ones in English literature? Read on:

Hiberno English in Hopkinsd Writings

Can Hopkins and his oeuvre be "head-shrunk"?

Dr Aidan Gregg, – himself an active , specializing in self and identity- does not think so.

While clinical psychology may illuminate aspects of Hopkins's life and work, its many limitations and pitfalls must be appreciated.

Can clinical psychology help us understand Hopkins?