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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Volumes I and II: Correspondence (Multiple copy pack)
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The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Volumes I and II: Correspondence (Multiple copy pack)
Series: Collected Works Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Hopkins's letters are his secular confessional, and if we wish to
understand the man and his poetry, this is material we cannot
ignore. This is where his mind allowed itself its most expansive
and unfettered expression.
This edition adds 43 letters to the total printed by Claude Colleer
Abbott in his three-volume major edition of the mid-twentieth
century. It further improves on the earlier editions in four ways:
in its accuracy, in its order, in its inclusiveness, and in the
thoroughness of its annotation. It is a completely new presentation
of the letters, set out on radically different lines from earlier
editions. It includes all the letters from Hopkins, but adds all
the extant letters which were written to him. It is set out in a
single chronological sequence, placing all the replies and queries
at their appropriate place within the correspondence, thus
providing as far as can be achieved, a narrative sequence. This
acts in many ways as an informal intellectual biography of Hopkins,
tracking his early ideas, his anxieties, his conversion, his
friendships, his priesthood, his disappointments, and his ideas on
literature and life. The transcriptions not only revise a large
number of readings, but include all legible deletions and
corrections, allowing the reader to follow the hesitancies and
adjustments of Hopkins's mind.
Like most nineteenth-century poets, Hopkins never published a
theoretical account of his work and his thoughts on poetry, but
what he had to say can be found in these letters, and their
extensive use by critics and poets indicates their richness as a
source of ideas on Hopkins's poetry and on poetry and poetics in
general.
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