Hopkins: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - Hardcover

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679444696 ISBN 13: 9780679444695

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of English poetry's most brilliant stylistic innovators, and one of the most distinguished poets of any age. However, during his lifetime he was known not as a poet but as a Jesuit priest, and his faith was essential to his work. His writings combine an intense feeling for nature with an ecstatic awareness of its divine origins, most remarkably expressed in his magnificent and highly original 'sprung rhythm.'This collection contains not only all of Hopkins’ significant poetry, but also selections from his journals, sermons, and letters, all chosen for their spiritual guidance and insight. Hopkins didn't allow the publication of most of his poems during his lifetime, so his genius was not appreciated until after his death. Now, more than a hundred years later, his words are still a source of inspiration and sheer infectious joy in the radiance of God's creation.

Review

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®

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679444696
• ISBN 13: 9780679444695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256