Vast majority of photographs courtesy of Loyola University Chicago. University Archives and Special Collections. Raymond V. Schoder, S.J., Slide Collection.
Photos of Hopkins
Hopkins in 1859 (about age 14)—photo of a painting
Hopkins in 1862 (about age 18)
Hopkins’s sketch of himself, August 1864, age 20
Hopkins as a somewhat rakish college student on the eve of his 22nd birthday (1866)
Bearded Hopkins, age 30
Hopkins at his desk, 1880 (age 36)
Hopkins with other Jesuits, Ireland, mid-1880s (front row, 4th from right)
Hopkins in April 1888 (a year before his death)
Photos Associated with Poems
“Oh, morning at the brown brink eastward, springs—”
(See “God’s Grandeur,” line 12)
“airy abeles set on a flare!”
(see “Starlight Night,” line 6)
“Fall, gall themselves,and gash gold-vermillion”
(see “The Windhover,” line 14)
“couple-colour as a brinded cow”
(see “Pied Beauty,” line 2)
“rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim”
(see “Pied Beauty,” line 3)
“Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls”
(see “Pied Beauty,” line 4)
“Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and
plough;”
(see “Pied Beauty,” line 5)
“now barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise”
(see “Hurrahing in Harvest,” line 1)
“silk-sack clouds”
(see “Hurrahing in Harvest,” line 3)
The Binsey Poplars
“Goldengrove,” here, a golden maple
(See “Spring and Fall,” line 2)
Inversnaid
“flitches of fern”
(see “Inversnaid,” line 11)
Ribblesdale
“lacèd they are again /
With fretty chervil”
(see “Thou art indeed just, Lord,” lines 10-11)
“yellow hornlight wound to the west”
(see “Spelt from Sibyll’s Leaves,” line 3)
Photos of Hopkins Places
Hampstead: 9 Oak Hill Park: (Hopkins’s boyhood home)
Oxford: Balliol quad
Birmingham Oratory
Roehampton: Manresa House
Stonyhurst: St. Mary’s Hall
St. Beuno’s front
St. Beuno’s chapel
View over Clwyd Valley to Rhyl
Oxford: St. Aloysius
The Binsey Poplars
Bedford Leigh: St. Joseph’s church
Liverpool: St. Francis Xavier
Birmingham slum in Hopkins’s day
St. Aloysius College, Glasgow
Inversnaid falls
Inversnaid
Ribblesdale
86 St. Stephen’s Green (Hopkins’s Dublin residence)
Grave of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Glasnevin Cemetary, Dublin (see first name on lower row)
Poet’s Corner: GMH plaque, Westminster Abbey