Abstract
Hopkins’s poems and Journal of 1866 show him coming closer and closer to joining the Catholic Church. His conversion was a gradual process, not an impulse, based on his increasing theological and emotional dissatisfaction with his life in one Church and need to find spiritual fulfilment in another.
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Notes
Newman, Essays Critical andHistorical, vol. II (London, 1977) pp. 338–9.
Dr F. Letemendia in Notebooks of Hopkins, ed. N. MacKenzie (New York/London, 1989) p. 35.
Faber, Poet and Priest: Selected Letters, ed. R. Addington (Glamorgan, 1974) pp. 93–4.
Newman, Loss and Gain, 6th edn (London, 1874) p. 430.
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Roberts, G. (1994). The Convert. In: Gerard Manley Hopkins. Macmillan Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23350-2_3
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