A full set of the poems of Hopkins

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Product Description

This book introduces Hopkins' poetry and prose through its wide-ranging engagements with nature, language, science, philosophy, theology, prosody and social issues. Gerard Manley Hopkins did not write his poetry for his fellow Victorians nor indeed for the huge readership it has acquired since it was first published in 1918, almost forty years after his death. The present study argues that Hopkins' fascinatingly original poetry is the most complete expression of his life's work and that it becomes accessible when it is read with his prose writings as a passionate exploration of nature, language, philosophy, contemporary science, theology, and prosody, all of which are also drawn together in his central ideas of "inscape" and "Sprung Rhythm." These contexts yield compelling new readings of the full range of his work, including his early poetry and his neglected poetic fragments, as well as those poems, such as "The Windhover", by which he is best known. A final chapter steps back from the intensely private contexts in which the poetry was produced to examine its interactions with social issues of class and gender.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #192571 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 123 pages

About the Author
Daniel Brown is Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Western Australia. He is also Associate Professor at the Free International University, Amsterdam. His publications include: Hopkins' Idealism: Philosophy, Physics, Poetry (1997); (with Hilary Fraser) English Prose of the Nineteenth Century; 'Science and Poetry', in Joseph Bristow (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2000).