Carrion Comfort

Carrion Comfort, sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, written in 1885 and published posthumously in 1918 in the collection Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. It is one of his “terrible sonnets,” a series of six despairing poems about spiritual apathy, with an underlying sense of artistic frustration.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.
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Article Title: Carrion Comfort
Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published: 16 August 2017
Access Date: February 22, 2025