SUMMARY: Relatively unknown in his own lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins is the now accredited as the author of some of the finest and most complex poems in the English language. As a Victorian poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, Hopkins pioneered a revolutionary form of meter he termed
Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins
β Scribed by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Year
- 1953;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 0141920319
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β¦ Synopsis
Four early poems (1865-1866) -- Poems (1876-1889) -- Some unfinished poems and fragments (1876-1889) -- From note-books, journal, etc. -- Selected letters.
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