Gerard Manley Hopkins is known for his powerful, emotive verse. A devout Christian who sought to convey the majesty of God and his creation, along with the fall of man and his redemption in and through Christ, Hopkins has been well-received and regarded by lovers of poetry of all stripes.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins is known for his powerful, emotive verse. A devout Christian who sought to convey the majesty of God and his creation, along with the fall of man and his redemption in and through Christ, Hopkins has been well-received and regarded by lovers of poetry of all stripes.
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Add this copy of Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Easyread Large Edition) to cart. $45.04, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by ReadHowYouWant.
Fully half of this book is biographical and instructional commentary. The collection of poems contains both brilliant and opaque (the Latin ones are beyond my elementary Latin), but fascinating reading for anyone who is dazzled by Hopkin's use of language in Pied Beauty, or God's Grandeur.
SquirrelMurphy
Apr 22, 2010
Short and Sweet
While Hopkins never got the chance to write a huge canon of poetry, his sprung rhythm and theory of inscape make his poetry unbelievably complex and downright enjoyable. He deals with perhaps the most important idea that faces man, identifying "What I do is me; For what I came." Great poet great book
CEA632
Apr 26, 2007
Edited by one of the great Hopkinsian scholars of all time, this anthology is the "gold standard." One of its benefits is that is coincides with the editor's excellent commentary on the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.