of young [Gerard Manley] Hopkins' mind, his grief when trees are hacked down, his essays on poetry or metaphysics, his first meeting with a Jesuit, his family vacations on the Isle of Wight. Becoming a Jesuit in 1868 (he was 24), he learns prayer and metaphysics, discovers the philosophy of Scotus on uniqueness, enjoys dialect words and Irish fairy-stories, visits art exhibitions, knows "the beauty of the Lord" through bluebells, reads about an American yacht race, hypnotizes a duck, and vacations with Jesuit classmates on the Isle of Man.from The Philadelphia Inquirer: Biography worthy of the poet
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