霍普金斯是英国维多利亚时期最有代表性的一位诗人，他的诗别出心裁，富有音乐感，在格律方面颇有创新。由于他完全悖离了传统的诗歌创作方法，加之他的作品生前一篇也没有正式发表过，这使得他在十九世纪鲜为人知。但是在二十世纪初，他的诗歌引起了诸多学者的广泛关注，当今众多的批评家一致认为霍普金斯创作了英国文学史上最优秀而又复杂难懂的诗歌。 Hopkins is one of the most representative poets in the Victorian era in England. His poems are original, rich in music and innovative in character. His complete absence from the traditional method of poetic writing, as well as his unpublished work in his lifetime, made him little-known in the nineteenth century. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century, his poems aroused the widespread concern of many scholars. Many critics nowadays agree that Hopkins has created the best and most complicated poems in the history of British literature.