HERE’S A CHALLENGE to Archbishop George Stack of Cardiff who, as we reported last week, is going to learn Welsh. After grappling with syntax and grammar, how about some poetry – and whose work could be a better starting point than the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins? For according to Lord Williams of Oystermouth, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Hopkins tried his hand at writing poetry in Welsh. Last week Lord Williams, a published poet, gave the second annual Hopkins Lecture at Roehampton University, in which he compared the work of Hopkins with that of Dylan Thomas. Lord Williams and Thomas come from the same Welsh town, Swansea, while Hopkins was sent by the Jesuits to St Beuno’s, near St Asaph, in North Wales, to study theology. Within a week of his arrival in