"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 ..."
""A magnificent, full-blooded biography of a romantic; his life achievements, his loves and his stormy career as a poet, novelist and statesman." Illustrated"
Selected Poems by GerardManleyHopkins Hardcover, 132 Pages, Published 1953 by Heinemann Educ. ISBN-13: 978-0-435-15006-8, ISBN: 0-435-15006-5