Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) [Hardcover]

Gerard Manley Hopkins (Author)

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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Publication Date: October 31, 1995

These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Hopkins contains a full selection of Hopkins's work, including selected verse, prose, and letters, and an index of first lines.

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Abyss
Ad Mariam
Andromeda
Binsey Poplars (felled 1879)
The Blessed Virgin, Compared To The Air We Breathe
Brothers
The Bugler's First Communion
The Caged Skylark
The Candle Indoors
Carrion Comfort
Duns Scotus's Oxford
Felix Randal
God's Grandeur
The Habit Of Perfection
The Half-way House
Harry Ploughman
Heaven-haven; A Nun Takes The Veil
Henry Purcell
Hurrahing In Harvest
The Immanent
In The Valley Of The Elwy
Inversnaid
The Leaden Echo (maiden's Song From St. Winefred's Well)
The Loss Of The Eurydice
The May Magnificat
Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice
My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On; Let
Myself Unholy
New Readings
Nondum
Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray
Peace
Penmaen Pool
Pied Beauty
Ribblesdale
The Sea And The Skylark
See How Spring Opens
The Shepherd's Brow
The Silver Jubilee
The Soldier
Sonnet
Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves
Spring
Spring And Fall: To A Young Child
The Starlight Night
The Terrible Sonnets: 3
That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire & Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection
To R. B.
To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life
To What Serves Mortal Beauty?
Tom's Garland: Upon The Unemployed
Where Art Thou Friend
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord
The Wreck Of The Deutschland
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Hopkins contains a full selection of Hopkins's work, including selected verse, prose, and letters, and an index of first lines.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library; 1st Everyman's edition (October 31, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679444696
• ISBN-13: 978-0679444695
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.7 x 6.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #416,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deep in Genuine, Devoted Faith and Rich Writing, September 17, 2001

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This review is from: Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

Hopkins is one of those poets hidden from so many because of his subject matter, yet is considered one of the most influential Victorian poets for his use of word combinations, meter and image.

Added to the delicious and poignant poetry is the contemplative nature of his prose and poetry. In it, you'll read about his humility and submission to God, his genuine faith, his desire that his poetry exalt God and not Hopkins himself.

Most his work was published posthumously, as late as 1920 or so, and immediately influenced the likes of T.S. Elliot (AKA, the guy who wrote the poem "Cats" is based on and "Wasteland") and his contemporaries.

While Whitman and Wilde were exalting in themselves, and just after Emerson and Thoreau were helping us see creation, Hopkins demonstrated prowess in pointing readers to see the Creator in the creation.

Atheists won't agree with him, of course, but he says it so well, they will at least go, "Hmm... if I believed, I could see that... yeah, wow, well put." The Catholics will cheer him on, "Atta boy... yep, that guy's a Jesuit!" Not undone are the Protestants who will be so impressed in agreement they'll be happy he was a Christian.

Check out this snippet from "Pied Beauty" "Glory be to God for dappled things--/For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;/For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;/Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches wings;/Landscape plotted and pieced--fold, fallow, and plough;/And 'all tra'des, their gear and tackle and trim." Those accents are in the original.

Delicious to say aloud? You should hear the second verse. His others are as tasty.

I fully recommend this book.

Anthony Trendl

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The dearest freshness deep down things", July 11, 2006

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

Hopkins did not create an enormous body of work, but what he did create was some of the most intensely powerful poetry English Literature has known. They are all here in this volume, poems such as " Thou art indeed, just" " Felix Randal, the Farrier",
" Carrion Comfort" " Binsey Populars" " God's Grandeur". Hopkins whose masterfully original descriptions of the natural world are second to none was one of the great innovators in the history of English verse. His development of the concept of 'sprung rhythm' return to the system of emphasizing the 'stresses' in verse is the key to this.
Hopkins tormented soul , his contention with his own despair are present in his most beautiful and moving poems.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Inspired Everyman Poets Series, September 2, 2010

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This review is from: Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

As usual the Gerard Manley Hopkins selection by the editors of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets does not disappoint. This book of Hopkin's poetry, letters and prose is a delightful and well thought out collection of one of England's finest pre-modern transcendent religious writers, with the wisdom to correspond with insight and wit about writing poetry. Another poet to add to my growing collection which now includes Shakespeare, Rilke, and others. Hats off and kudos to Alfred A. Knopf for continuing to produce these gems. Thank you Amazon for providing an essentialy new copy at a discount price!