Selected Poetry
Hopkins, Gerard Manley / Phillips, Catherine (Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Downing College, Cambridge) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) is now recognized as a major poet of striking originality and is widely admired for his particularly vivid expression of feeling. This selection, chosen from the award-winning Oxford Authors critical edition, includes most of the larger fragments and all of his major English poems, such as "The Blessed Virgin, " "No Worst, " "The Windhover, " "Pied Beauty" and "The Wreck of the Deutschland." The poems are illumi...