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

Gerard Manley Hopkins (Author), Catherine Phillips (Editor)
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Oxford World's Classics April 15, 2009
This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's 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 Hopkins's journals, letters, and spiritual writings. The poems are printed in chronological order to show Hopkins's changing preoccupations, and all the texts have been established from original manuscripts.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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"Catherine Phillips's excellent edition of the poems...will be the standard reading text for many years to come." --Times Literary Supplement


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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets.

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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Reissue edition (April 15, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199538859
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199538850
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Francis (Frank) McAloon is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. He's a Hopkins scholar and loves teaching Christian spirituality and Hopkins. One of the courses he teaches is: Prayers, Poetry, and Hopkins.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars There lives the dearest freshness deep down things The supplementary documents and the great poems, February 3, 2010
This review is from: Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
For most readers including myself what matters in a poet are the great poems. These are the poems most frequently anthologized andmost widely known. These are the ones some of us read over and over again, and even try to memorize. But along with and behind the great poems are the lesser poems. And along with this is the documentation of a life, which in Hopkins case includes many letters. There is too in a critical edition of the poems another benefit for the reader, for in some cases we can see the variants and the transformations the poems undergo before reaching final form.
Again all of these background materials would be nothing without the great poems. In Hopkins poems there is the fresh and wildly original connection with Nature, the miraculous inventiveness of language, a way of seeing and saying like no other poet before. There is too the God - consciousness which pervades Hopkins works and makes him one of the greatest of all the religious poets.
This volume enables us to deepen in our knowledge of one of the English language's greatest poets.
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