Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) [Paperback]

Gerard Manley Hopkins (Author), Samuel Hynes (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0192834916 | ISBN-13: 978-0192834911 | Publication Date: May 6, 1999

Thomas Hardy is among the best-loved of the great English poets, perhaps drawing his great popularity from the elegaic tone of much of his finest verse and the universality of his subject matter: birth, childhood, love, marriage, age, and death. Those elegies inspired by the death of his first wife Emma are some of his best, and are well represented in this new selection of his verse. Prepared by Samuel Hynes, the editor of the definitive Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Thomas Hardy, this volume includes a selection of Hardy's poetry that spans his life, verses that influenced later poets as diverse as Robert Graves and Philip Larkin, Ezra Pound and W.H. Auden.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'There is no more trusted name when it comes to the work of the great British poets than that of Oxford University Press. If you want the collected works, fully annotated and with scholarly editing then it's OUP you look to ... a series of elegant paperback volumes, each dedicated to a single poet, and with an introduction by an acknowledged expert.' David Thomas, Oxford Times

'the selections are excellent, and the books real value for money' Robert Nye, The Times

About the Author

Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (May 6, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192834916
• ISBN-13: 978-0192834911
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,964,543 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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5.0 out of 5 stars the greatest poetry ever written, June 4, 2001

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This review is from: Selected Poetry (World's Classics) (Paperback)

Gerard Manley Hopkins is the greatest English poet to ever put pen to paper, bar none. Yes, even better than Shakespeare. Every student of English lit should read Hopkins. Hopkins writes from a profound love and awe of God and the beauty of His creations, but also from a deep despair resulting from chronic depression. His mastery of classical English combined with his magic use of sounds and word inventions is sheer genius. Read him.