Today, July 31, the Church remembers Ignatius of Loyal. founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). I have long admired this order, even though I have been a Lutheran pastor for over four decades. My parents spoke well of them, and they were not at all inclined to say anything good about Roman Catholicism.
During my last quarter at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, I took a course on the Spiritual Exercises at the Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago, co-located with us.
In high school, I read about the Berrigan Brothers. Dan Berrivgan was a poet, and I read what I could of his works. Robert Southwell was executed during Elizabeth I's reign, and I have also read some of his poems. Berrigna was freer-form.
But Gerard Manley Hopkins influenced me the most. When I started at Penn State, I resolved to read things not required for a class. In an independent bookstore across from campus, I bought Hopkins' Collected Poems and a secondary source about him. After all, I was at college now, and figured I needed to expand what I had been doing. And I was not planning on being an English major. Either German or journalism interested me then. I chose the former, but became. active in print and broadcast media
I marvel at Hopkins's use of language. While I cannot say I have consciously tried to imitate it, it has influenced me. I will end by posting some links and let the readers pursue
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gerard-manley-hopkins
https://jpearce.co/three-jesuit-poets/
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