The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature)

ISBN: 0415255244

Author: Jenkins, Alice

Condition: New

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins poetry presents: extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews and critical works unabridged texts of twenty-nine of Hopkins most important poems, with detailed annotations cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for futher reading.Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hopkinss work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.