Dr. Holly Ordway
This article is adapted from As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Selected and Annotated Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Holly Ordway.
I first encountered the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins exactly thirty years ago, in an undergraduate English course, and though at the time I barely understood what I was reading, something about his poems—ones like “The Windhover,” “God’s Grandeur,” and “Carrion Comfort”—resonated with me at a deep level, and he has stuck with me ever since. Along with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, he had a great deal to do with my eventual conversion to Christianity, and later full reception into the Catholic Church, and I’ve had the pleasure of teaching his poetry to undergraduate and graduate students over the years.
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