Dimensions
129 x 199 x 30mm
Hopkins is arguably the greatest English poet of the Victorian period, yet his work was unpublished until 1918, twenty-nine years after his death. Though in many ways a product of the nineteenth century, he found his audience in the twentieth. His work challenges all easy assumptions as to what the language of poetry can or cannot do, and has been a major influence on modern English verse.
Poems in praise of God's created world such as 'Pied Beauty', 'God's Grandeur' and 'The Windhover', and poems of spiritual struggle such as 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' and the sonnets of desolation, have the dramatic power that comes from exploring anew the genius of the English language. The same imaginative power is there also in the prose - the journals, the letters and the devotional writings.
This is a poet who celebrates unique identities and experiences, their meaning and their value.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Hopkins's life and times.
