Gerard Hopkins in Wales

The three years Gerard Manley Hopkins spent at the Jesuit college at St. Beuno's in the Vale of Clwyd were the most important of his authorial life. Here he encountered the Welsh language and its poetry which were to be such a distinctive influence on his work. This book explores the St Beuno's experience for Hopkins: how he was affected by the contemplative life there, by the landscape, by the Welsh language. This volume is the first full-length study of Hopkins's rich period in Wales. [abbreviated from publisher's details].