Lesley Higgins, Professor of English at York University (Toronto, Canada), specializes in Victorian and modernist literature and culture. She has published extensively on Hopkins, his tutor Walter Pater, and modernism. Together with Michael F. Suarez, S.J., she is the general editor of The CollectedWorks of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and co-editor of Volume VIII, The Dublin Notebook; she is also editing Volume III, Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, then part of Essex on 28th July, 1844, to deeply religious parents?the first of nine children.The family moved to Hampstead in 1852, near to where John Keats had lived thirty years before. At age ten the young... SEE MORE