Mine Own Familiar Friend

William Robert Adamson has both authored and edited books and articles on subjects as diverse as the 18th century Scottish novelist Tobias Smollett, the American crime writer Raymond Chandler, film studies and language skills for university students of English. He is Head of the English Department at the University of Ulm in Germany where he specialises in poetry and creative writing. He is the Assistant Director of the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society of Newbridge, Ireland, and is also a past president of the Raymond Chandler Society, Germany. In 2007 he was the recipient of Recipient of the O’Connor Cup presented by the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society.

• Contents: An Odd Couple: Gerard Hopkins and Robert Bridges – The Man from Petrograd: Bridges and Hopkins’s Collected Poems of 1918 – With a Friend Like that … : Robert Bridges’s «Preface to Notes» in Hopkins’s Poems, 1918 – «Lagging Lines»: Gerard Hopkins’s «To R.B.» – «Upon the Yellow Sands»: Bridges’s Prefatory Sonnet – Critical Minds: The Literary Criticism of Hopkins and Bridges – «Presumptious Jugglery»: Hopkins’s and Bridges’s Critical Views on Each Other’s Works – «The Limits of My World»: Two Approaches to Language – Grig and Grumble: Conclusion – A Brief Chronology of Hopkins’s Life – A Brief Chronology of Bridges’s Life.