ABSTRACT

December 1935, pp. 887–900

Christopher Devlin (1907–61) was one of the exceptional talents of the Society of Jesus. Educated at Stonyhurst, he joined the Society in 1926, taught at Jesuit schools, and studied at the Gregorian University in Rome 1935–9. A private^ poet himself, he found Hopkins (and hence Scotus— see his article in New Verse, April 1935) of special interest. He published works on Southwell and Smart, and edited Hopkin’s sermons in 1958. He was a great friend of Humphry House, and originally was to have completed the biography of Hopkins which the latter started, but cancer caused his early death.

Blackfriars was founded by the English Dominicans in 1913, and although mainly religious did carry articles of literary interest.