Hopkins Poems And Prose

Nov 13, 2025 7:06 PM

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are dazzling celebrations of God's endless creative power couched in a uniquely expressive poetic diction, and all his mature poetry is her reprinted, together with illuminating fragments from journals, letters, sermons and lectures in which he expounds his literary and religious outlook.

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If you surrender and go with her, you will find that you have surrendered to enchantments, as if in a voluptuous dream

—— Boston Globe

Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates a myth

—— Washington Post Book World

Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere... She makes us believe everything she sees

—— New York Times Book Review

Like all first-class comedians, he is deadly serious

—— Terry Eagleton , Stand

In his major postwar novels, the pain and earnestness of the individual’s quest for ‘meaning and design’ can be felt more intensely than perhaps anywhere else in contemporary Western prose

—— Sunday Times

An antipodean King Lear writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian . . . an intensely dramatic masterpiece.

—— The Australian

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