000			01457nam a2200193 a 4500
020			_a9780140420159
020			_a0140420150,
082			_a821 _bHOP
100			_aHopkins, Gerard manley _eaut
245			_aPoems & Prose
260			_bPenguin Books _aLondon _c2008
300			_axxxvi, 260 pages
490			_aPenguin classics.
500			_aIndex
520			_aCloser 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 and 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 wish 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 posthumously in 1918. His verse is wrought from the creative tensions and paradoxes of a poet-priest who wanted to evoke the spiritual essence of nature sensuously, and to communicate this revelation in natural language and speech-rhythms while using condensed, innovative diction and all the skills of poetic artifice. Intense, vital, and individual, his writing is the terrible crystal through which the soulthe inscape, the nature of thingsmay be illuminated.
650			_aHopkins, Gerard Manley, -- 1844-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation.
700			_aGardner, W H
942			_cBK
999			_c20856 _d20856