Selected Letters

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Book Overview

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) has long been admired as a letterwriter for the vividness, sense of humor, and honesty with which he expressed his opinions. Although he died young, his life overlapped with some of the great poets--Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Robert Bridges--of the Victorian era, and his comments on them are astute and revealing. This collection, drawn from the three volumes edited by C.C. Abbott, covers the whole period of Hopkins's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192828185
• ISBN13: 9780192828187
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"