Poems of Gerard Manley HopkinsNow First Published
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The Poems Of Gerard Manley Hopkins
 List Price: Price: $22.71 You Save: $11.24 (33%) DescriptionCollection of poems by Hopkins, nearly all first published after his death, by UK poet laureate Robert Bridges, whom no one today has heard of -- go figure.
Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics)
 List Price: Price: $7.55 You Save: $8.45 (53%) DescriptionCloser to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice.
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
 List Price: Price: $9.43 You Save: $6.52 (41%) DescriptionThis 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.
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins
 List Price: Price: $7.29 You Save: $6.66 (48%) DescriptionGerard 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.
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selected Poems (Literature Insights)
 List Price: $7.99 DescriptionA detailed intrduoduction to and commentary on the poetry of Hopkins, exploring the significance of contemporary cultural issues and the poet's life as Catholic convert and Jesuit priest.In this exemplary study guide, John Gilroy traces Hopkins's life from his early schooldays, his undergraduate years at Oxford and conversion to Catholicism, to his work as a Jesuit scholar and poet-priest; explains the core principles of Hopkins's innovative and challenging poetry, including sections on inscape, instress and sprung rhythm; provides a detailed critical commentary on most of the major poems: The Wreck of the Deutschland, God's Grandeur, The Starlight Night, As Kingfishers, Spring, The Sea and the Skylark, In the Valley of the Elwy, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, The Caged Skylark, Hurrahing in Harvest, The Lantern out of Doors, Duns Scotus's Oxford, Binsey Poplars, Henry Purcell, The Candle Indoors, Felix Randal, Spring and Fall, Inversnaid, Ribblesdale, To What Serves Mortal Beauty, Patience, the six 'Terrible Sonnets', Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves, Harry Ploughman, Tom's Garland, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire, 'Thou art indeed just', 'To R.B.'; and explores the history of Hopkins criticism from that of his own contemporaries to twentieth century and current critical approaches. John Gilroy took his BA at the University of Newcastle and his MPhil at the University of Warwick. He is co-author of A Commentary on Wordsworth's Prelude, Books 1-5 (London: RKP, 1983) and has contributed to various literary publications. He was senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge from 1974 until 2006, and is a course director for the University of Cambridge's residential and international programmes. He is the author of a best-selling study of Philip Larkin in this series. Hopkins Gerard Manley News
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Times OnlineTimes Walks: Offa's Dyke, Herefordshire - PowysIt was high on that “pastoral forehead of Wales” where the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once lived. And a few dozen steep yards above it ran the long-distance pathway of Offa's Dyke. You can join this path anywhere on its 275km (170 mile) course through
Baltimore SunAudiobooks: Francine Prose's "Goldengrove" the author to abandon him without so much as a farewell. The book takes its name from a strange, mysterious, and utterly gorgeous poem called Spring and Fall: to a Young Child, that was written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1918. You can read it here.