-Entered Jesuit order and burned almost all of his poetry
-Didn't write for 7 years
-"The Wreck of the Deutschland"
-Became a Jesuit priest in 1877
-Became a Greek professor in Dublin
-Died in 1889

-Born in 1844
-Eldest son of highly educated parents
-Parents devoted to Church of England
-Won a poetry prize from boarding school to study in Oxford
-Converted to Roman Catholicism in 1868

Biography