LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Christina Rossetti
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Elizabeth Barret Browning
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Ted Hughes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gerard Manley Hopkins, (born July 28, 1844, Stratford, Essex, Eng.-died June 8, 1889, Dublin), English poet and Jesuit priest, one of the most individual of Victorian writers. His work was not published in collected form until 1918, but it influenced many leading 20th-century poets.
Detailed explanation-2: -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born 6 March 1806, was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both Britain and the United States during her lifetime.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gerard Manley Hopkins is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I.
Detailed explanation-4: -Poetry was one of the most popular genres of the Victorian period. The Romantic poets, particularly William Wordsworth (who lived through the beginning of the period, dying in 1850) were revered and widely quoted.