Product Description

This guide to Hopkins' poetry presents extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work from composition to the present. Including twenty-nine unabridged texts of his most important poems, this sourcebook is invaluable reading for all those beginning a detailed study of Hopkins' work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271217 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Back Cover

The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writing of the Victorian period. Hopkins was an experimental and idiosyncratic writer whose work remains important for any student of Victorian literature. 

• Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins’ poetry offers:
• extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the present
• annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, and critical works
• unabridged texts of twenty-nine of Hopkins’s most important poems, with detailed annotations
• cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hopkins’ work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.

About the Author
Alice Jenkins is lecturer in the department of English at the University of Glasgow