Ricks called Hopkins "the most original poet of the Victorian age."[13] Hopkins is considered as influential as T. S. Eliot in initiating the modernist movement in poetry.[41] His experiments with elliptical phrasing and double meanings and quirky conversational rhythms turned out to be liberating to poets such as W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas.[42] 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".[43] The American author Ron Hansen's novel, Exiles, who held the Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, Professorship in English at Santa Clara University, dramatises Hopkins' composition of The Wreck of the Deutschland.[44]
The Gerard Manley Hopkins Building in University College Dublin is named after him.
