Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-1889

The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
84 editions published between 1918 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 2,651 libraries worldwide

Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
62 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,310 libraries worldwide
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 at Stratford in Essex. After attending Highgate School, he entered Balliol College, Oxford, as an exhibitioner in 1863. Drawn into the religious controversy still active there, he was converted to Catholicism and upon graduation took a post as teacher in Newman's school, the Oratory, near Birmingham. The following year he decided to enter the Society of Jesus and burned copies of the poems he had written in symbolic dedication of himself to his new vocation. Two largely enjoyable years at the novitiate in London were followed by three spent in further study amidst the bleaker beauty of Lancashire. It was some years later, while Hopkins was studying theology in Wales, that he returned to poetic composition, writing in less than two years 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' and more than a dozen good short poems.

A Hopkins reader by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
12 editions published between 1953 and 1968 in English and held by 1,105 libraries worldwide

Journals and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
14 editions published between 1950 and 1986 in English and held by 1,048 libraries worldwide

The letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
22 editions published between 1935 and 1970 in English and held by 987 libraries worldwide

Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
34 editions published between 1953 and 2008 in English and held by 967 libraries worldwide
Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, [the author] was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Society of Jesus at the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wish of my superiors.' His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Intense, vital, individual, his writing is the 'terrible crystal' through which the soul, the inscape, the nature of things, may be illuminated. -Back cover.

The correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
24 editions published between 1935 and 1970 in English and held by 913 libraries worldwide

Further letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins, including his correspondence with Coventry Patmore by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
20 editions published between 1938 and 1970 in English and held by 893 libraries worldwide

Sermons and devotional writings by Gerard Manley Hopkins ( Book )
5 editions published between 1959 and 1967 in English and held by 841 libraries worldwide

A concordance to the English poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Robert J Dilligan ( Book )
7 editions published between 1970 and 1986 in English and held by 743 libraries worldwide