This authoritative edition was first published in the Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. The only paperback edition to arrange the poems in chronological order, it includes all the poetry and features such celebrated pieces as 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', 'The Windhover', and 'Felix Randall', as well as excerpts from Hopkins's journals, letters and spiritual writings.
Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society...
An analysis of the writing life of the nineteenth-century English poet documents his experiences as a Jesuit priest, his struggles with depression, and the spiritual journey that informed his beliefs. 12,500 first printing.
Reproduction of the original: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Robert Bridges
Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined material sensuousness with asceticism. This anthology features all of his mature work, including the well-known elegy, "The Wreck of the Deutschland."
An insightful and inspirational biography of the heroic and spiritual poet. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844?1889) may well have been the most original and innovative poet writing in the English language during the nineteenth century.
Farm Street Church, London (July–November 1878) But Hopkins was soon moved to other posts, first to Stonyhurst College for ten weeks to coach the “secular philosophers” for external degrees from the University of London, ...
This is the ideal introduction to the spirituality of the great nineteenth-century Catholic mystic poet. With a preface by Rev. Thomas Ryan, C.S.P., this book is part of a new series, The Mystic Poets.Skylight Paths
This edition is edited by Robert Bridges, poet laureate, and lifelong friend of Hopkins.
Hopkins occupies a position in English literary history which is virtually unique: that of a strikingly original poet whose work remained unknown in his life-time except to a handful of...
The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published posthumously in 1918.