The very high poetic reputation of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) has been entirely posthumous. Educated at Highgate and at Balliol College, Oxford, he was a pupil of Benjamin Jowett and Walter Pater, and he numbered Robert Bridges, Coventry Patmore, R.W. Dixon, and, later, John Henry Newman among his friends. Hopkins entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, and in 1884 he was appointed to the Chair of Greek at Dublin University. A collected edition of his poe.