"Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality. He is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling, from the religious ecstasy of `he Blessed Virgin' to the torments of his loneliness and despair in `No Worst', and for conveying with wonderful freshness his sense of natural beauty in such poems as `The Windhover' and `Pied Beauty'. This selection, chosen from the award-winn ..."
"Excellent sampling of works by one of the Victorian era’s most individual poets includes—among other strikingly original poems—The Wreck of the Deutschland, "Carrion Comfort," "The Caged Skylark," "The Silver Jubilee," as well as a selection of unfinished poems and poem fragments."
"Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality and is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling. This selection, chosen from the award-winning Oxford Authors critical edition, includes most of the larger fragments and all of his major English poems, such as "The Blessed Virgin," "No Worst," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty" and "The Wreck of the Deutschland." The poems are il ..."
"Discover How Hopkins’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own. "Poetry and art and music seize upon the human experience in ways that reveal new possibilities of intimacy with the Divine. In the way they reach out and grab us by the heart at unexpected times, they reaffirm that the Holy will meet us when it chooses …"―from the Preface by ..."
"These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Hopkins contains a full selection of Hopkins's work, including selected verse, prose, and letters, and an index of first lines."
"Gerard Manley Hopkins. things donotlook high when you are as highasthey ... My
eye was caught by beams of light and dark very like the crown of horny rays the
sun makes behind a cloud. At first I thought ofsilvery cloud until I saw that these ..."
As Kingfishers Catch Fire(1st Edition) (Penguin Little Black Classics) by GerardManleyHopkins Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2015 by Penguin Classic International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-14-139784-9, ISBN: 0-14-139784-5
"'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry, ranging from the ecstasy of 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from aro ..."
"Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there’s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the deeper meaning of the season. Ecumenical in scope, these fifty devotions invite the reader to contemplate the great themes of Christmas and ..."
"Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The "Penguin Classics" edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Poems and Prose" is selected and edited with an introduction by W.H. Gardner. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his 'creative violence' and insistence on the sound of poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins was no staid, conventional Vict ..."
Poetry and Prose(Updated) (Everyman's Library) by GerardManleyHopkins, Walford Davies Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-0-460-87714-5, ISBN: 0-460-87714-3
"In his poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) sought to discover afresh the potentialities of language, and to that end developed his idiosyncratic theories of instress, inscape and sprung rhythm. Hopkins's verse is also informed by his religious beliefs; having converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1866, he became a Jesuit priest eleven years later. However, his poetry is free from a sense of religious dogma, and instead offers a w ..."
Selected Poems by GerardManleyHopkins Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1994 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-831961-0, ISBN: 0-19-831961-4
"This selection of Hopkins's poetry presents around 40 of his best-known poems to students studying English at Advanced Level or as part of a college course."
"Oxford University Press, 1980. Trade paperback. (ISBN 0-19-281272-6) Edited by Gerald Roberts. Lovely cover illustration: detail from "Bluebells and other Flowers Growing Round a Tree Stump" by H. Larpent Roberts, Private Collection. Good copy, pages browning, good wrappers. Gerard Manley Hopkins became a Catholic in 1866 at the age of twenty-two and joined the Society of Jesus two years later. It was after this that he wrote the poetry ..."
"Had it been Andres, she would have known it beyond all possibility of doubt. She
murmured: "We shall never see him again.". . . Gradere shrugged: "He's been
delayed. . . . Put yourself in his shoes. . . . But he's not a nit-wit." Mathilde got up
suddenly: "This time it is Andres!" Gabriel remarked that he could hear nothing.
But already the sound of a car, emerging into life from the heart of silence, was
coming closer. "I can hear ..."
"Jean-Louis spoke absent-mindedly. Most of his attention was being given to Yves
, whose forehead and hands alone were visible. He got up and turned on the
light. Yves half averted his head, revealing to his brother's eyes a crop of tousled
..."
"The book offers radical rereadings not only of his metaphysics and theology, but also of his best-known poems."
GerardManleyHopkins(Reprint) The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by GerardManleyHopkins, Catherine Phillips Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953885-0, ISBN: 0-19-953885-9
"This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together all Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to give the essence of his work and thinking. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was one of the most innovative of nineteenth-century poets., During his tragically short life he strove to reconcile his religious and ar ..."
"Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of English poetry's most brilliant stylistic innovators, and one of the most distinguished poets of any age. However, during his lifetime he was known not as a poet but as a Jesuit priest, and his faith was essential to his work. His writings combine an intense feeling for nature with an ecstatic awareness of its divine origins, most remarkably expressed in his magnificent and highly original 'sprung rhythm. ..."
"This book collects the complete work of Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Arranged in chronological order, and capturing the full range of his poetic interests at each stage of his life, the poems are complemented by selections from Hopkins' journals, sermons, and letters, which offer prose perspectives on the concerns which surface in the verse. Phillips has gone back to ..."
Hawaii The Past, Present, and Future of Its Island-Kingdom: An Historic Account of the Sandwich Islands of Polynesia by Manley-Hopkins, GeraldManleyHopkins, GerardManleyHopkins Hardcover, 566 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7103-0781-1, ISBN: 0-7103-0781-0