Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Book Overview

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 illuminated further by extensive Notes and a useful Introduction to Hopkins's life and poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192834924
• ISBN13: 9780192834928
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.9" x 0.7" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

the greatest poetry ever written

Gerard Manley Hopkins is the greatest English poet to ever put pen to paper, bar none. Yes, even better than Shakespeare. Every student of English lit should read Hopkins. Hopkins writes from a profound love and awe of God and the beauty of His creations, but also from a deep despair resulting from chronic depression. His mastery of classical English combined with his magic use of sounds and word inventions is sheer genius. Read him.