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Title
Gerard Manley Hopkins Memorial (Stratford Library)
Date
1994
Accession number
E15_TJ_S122
Work type
Monument
Owner
London Borough of Newham
Custodian
London Borough of Newham
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
28th July 1994
Access
at all times
Inscription description
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS / Poet / Born 28th July 1844 / Died 8th June 1889 / was born and lived at 87 The Grove Stratford near this site / until 1851 / 2 / . 'Loathed for a love men knew in them, / Banned by the land of their birth, / Rhine refused them. Thames would ruin them; / Surf, snow, river and earth / Gnashed: but thou art above, thou Orion of light.' / From: Stanza 21 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'