The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Sourcebook

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins? poetry presents:

<UL><LI>extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the present<LI>annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews and critical works<LI>unabridged texts of twenty-nine of Hopkins? most importa

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins? poetry presents:

<UL><LI>extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the present<LI>annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews and critical works<LI>unabridged texts of twenty-nine of Hopkins? most important poems, with detailed annotations<LI>cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism<LI>suggestions for futher reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hopkins's work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.