Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins A Sourcebook

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.Jenkins, Alice is the author of 'Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins A Sourcebook', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415255240 and ISBN 0415255244.