Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Oxford Authors)

This book collects the complete work of Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Arranged in chronological order, and capturing the full range of his poetic interests at each stage of his life, the poems are complemented by selections from Hopkins' journals, sermons, and letters, which offer prose perspectives on the concerns which surface in the verse. Phillips has gone back to the original manuscripts, producing the most accurate text ever available, and revealing the poet's own taste more fully than has ever been possible.