Abstract

In the 1870s Gerard Manley Hopkins submitted two poems to the Catholic journal, the Month. Both were rejected. This article argues that the Month was a stronger influence on one of the rejected poems—The Wreck of the Deutschland—than has usually been thought, and traces connections between Hopkins's response to anti-Catholic agitation in Europe and that to be found in the pages of the journal. The article ends by suggesting that although rejection by the journal was felt by Hopkins as a great disappointment, it ultimately benefitted his poetry, removing a likely restraint on his stylistic innovations.

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