The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415255236 ISBN 13: 9780415255233

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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 Hopkins’s work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.

About this title

About the Author

Alice Jenkins is lecturer in the department of English at the University of Glasgow

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415255236
• ISBN 13: 9780415255233
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Jenkins Alice