Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Hopkins, Gerard Manley. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780192840790.

This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkinss poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets. During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and artistic vocations, and this edition demonstrates the range of his interests. It includes all his poetry, from best-known works such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and "The Windhover" to translations, foreign language poems, plays, and verse fragments, and the recently discovered poem "Consule Jones". In addition there are excerpts from Hopkinss journals, letters, and spiritual writings. The poems are printed in chronological order to show Hopkinss changing preoccupations, and all the texts have been established from original manuscripts.