For many years Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry was considered highly idiosyncratic and became subject to capricious postmodernist criticism, alienating his work from readers.
Lawler offers novel readings of the poet's most celebrated work in light of historical and structuralist understanding of the poetic tradition and the Western religious and liturgical tradition in which Hopkins was steeped. He provides new discoveries of sources of themes and images and touches on controversial issues, such as Hopkins's homoeroticism.
