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Almost none of these poems was published in Hopkins's lifetime. When they finally appeared in 1918, they changed the course of English poetry.
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About this edition
Priest, convert, and secret genius, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poetry unlike anything before it, packed, sprung, and straining with the “inscape” of the living world. Here are the great hymns of praise — God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Spring and Fall — and, at the book's dark heart, the “terrible sonnets” of his last desolate years, wrung from a soul in the grip of despair.
The complete 1918 collection edited by Robert Bridges, in its three parts — Early Poems, Poems 1876–1889, and Unfinished Poems — each poem freshly set on its own page with Hopkins's metrical accents and line indentation carefully preserved, and his own Author's Preface on sprung rhythm given as an appendix.
Behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
Details
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
- Edited by Robert Bridges, first published 1918
- With Hopkins's Author's Preface on sprung rhythm
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 134 pages