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==Influence on others== Ricks called Hopkins "the most original poet of the Victorian age."<ref name=Ricks>{{Cite news| url = https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-art-and-faith-of-Gerard-Manley-Hopkins-4424| title = Ricks, Christopher. "The art and faith of Gerard Manley Hopkins", ''The New Criterion'', September 1991| newspaper = The New Criterion}}</ref> Hopkins is considered as influential as [[T. S. Eliot]] in initiating the modernist movement in poetry.<ref>[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-bernard-martin/gerard-manley-hopkins/ "Review: Martin, 'A Very Private Life'", Kirkus Reviews].</ref> His experiments with elliptical phrasing, double meanings and quirky conversational rhythms turned out to be liberating to poets such as [[W. H. Auden]] and [[Dylan Thomas]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-18-vw-865-story.html |last=Casey|first= Constance|title=Book Review : A Very Private Life of a Victorian Poet : Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin|journal=The Los Angeles Times|date= June 18, 1991}}</ref> Hopkins also had a direct influence on the Ghanaian poet and novelist [[Kojo Laing]], whose poem "No needle in the sky" has been called an intercultural translation of Hopkins's "[[The Windhover]]".<ref>{{cite book | url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-18776-6 | doi=10.1007/978-3-031-18776-6 | title=Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature | date=2023 | last1=Hankinson | first1=Joseph | isbn=978-3-031-18775-9 | s2cid=254625651 }}</ref> The American author [[Ron Hansen (novelist)|Ron Hansen]] held the Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, Professorship in English at [[Santa Clara University]]; his novel ''Exiles'' dramatises Hopkins' composition of ''[[The Wreck of the Deutschland]].''<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Interview {{!}} A Conversation with Ron Hansen |url=https://imagejournal.org/article/conversation-ron-hansen/ |first=Brennan|last=O'Donnell | issue=57|date=Spring 2008|access-date=2022-11-30 |journal=Image |language=en-US}}</ref> The Gerard Manley Hopkins Building in University College Dublin is named after him.
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