The Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins

This long-awaited complete edition of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins offers the most up-to-date guidance available. The edition is scrupulously and fully annotated, with a detailed commentary and introduction. Full attention is given to his neglected early poems. Headnotes to each poem set out its intellectual or biographical background, giving a wealth of illuminating quotations from Hopkin's letters, journals, and other writings.