This long-awaited complete edition of the poetry offers the most up-to-date guidance available. Headnotes to each poem include a wealth of quotations from Hopkins's letters, journals, and other writings.

Reproduction of the original: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Robert Bridges

The Escorial - Rosa Mystica - The wreck of the Deutschland - Dublin sonnets - Il Mystico - St Thecla - Moonrise.

Gerard Manley Hopkins' experimental use of prosody and imagery has earned him the posthumous fame of being a daring innovator in a period dominated by traditional verse. The Delphi Poets Series edition of Hopkins offers the complete poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and a treasure trove of prose works to complement the poetry. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hopkins' life and works * An informative introduction to the life and poetry of Hopkins * Excellent formatting of the poems, with line numbers - ideal for students * Special chronological, alphabetical and traditional numerical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Hopkins' letters - spend hours exploring the poet's personal correspondence to friends and family * Special non-fiction section, with rare sermons and the seminal essay ON THE ORIGIN OF BEAUTY * Also features Hopkins' journals and diaries * Features a bonus biography - discover Hopkins' literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins BRIEF INTRODUCTION: GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ORIGINAL NUMERICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction ON THE ORIGIN OF BEAUTY: A PLATONIC DIALOGUE SERMONS AND OTHER NON-FICTION WORKS The Letters LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS The Journals and Diaries LIST OF ENTRIES The Biography GERARD HOPKINS by Katherine Bregy Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins created verse that combined material sensuousness with asceticism. This anthology features all of his mature work, including the well-known elegy, "The Wreck of the Deutschland."