Poems and Prose
$19.98
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2008
Summary
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 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 wishes of my superiors’. The poems, letters and journal entries selected for this edition were written in the following twenty years of his life, and published pos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140420159 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140420150 |
| Author: | Gerard Hopkins, W. Gardner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Gerard Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was born in Essex, the eldest son of a prosperous middle-class family. He was educated at Highgate School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Classics and began his lifelong friendship with Robert Bridges. In 1866 he entered the Roman Catholic Church and two years later he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1877 he was ordained and was priest in a number of parishes including a slum district in Liverpool. From 1882 to 1884 he taught at Stonyhurst College and in 1884 he became Classics Professor at University College, Dublin. In his lifetime Hopkins was hardly known as a poet, except to one or two friends; his poems were not published until 1918, in a volume edited by Robert Bridges.
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