The Windhover
The Windhover, sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, completed in May 1877 and collected posthumously in 1918 in Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Written shortly before Hopkins’s ordination as a Jesuit priest, the poem is dedicated “to Christ our Lord.” It concerns Hopkins’s philosophy of inscape, the essential nature of a person or thing.
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Article Title:
The Windhover
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
23 February 2018
Access Date:
February 23, 2025