The poetical works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The poetical works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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Poems
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Reprinted with corrections
Bibliography: p. [514]-531
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This long-awaited complete edition of the poetry offers serious students of Gerard Manley Hopkins far more guidance than has previously been available. The edition is scrupulously and fully annotated, with a commentary and introduction. The texts are arranged chronologically; rhythm is clarified where Hopkins's prosodic marks are eccentric; and thousands of words and phrases are annotated, many for the first time. The neglected early half of his poetic output, before
the Wreck of the Deutschland, is given full attention.
The substantial introduction gives the history of each album of poetic manuscripts and a critical analysis of Hopkins's prosodic signs and use of accidentals. Because of the ambiguities disclosed, the editor argues that a definitive edition is probably beyond reach, but the new light he throws on the poetry should prove a major stimulus to Hopkins criticism. The headnote to each poem sets out its intellectual or biographical background, and lists critical articles on it, particularly those
published after the 1969-70 cut-off date of Dunne's Comprehensive Bibliography of Hopkins. The detailed commentary gives a wealth of illuminating quotations from Hopkins's letters, journals, and other writings, as well as directing the reader to further areas of research. Professor MacKenzie's intimate
knowledge of the manuscripts results in separate descriptions of every draft, fair-copy, and significant transcript of each poem. The principal variants are noted, and there are cross-references to the editor's two-volume Poetic Facsimiles of the manuscripts.
Table of Contents
- Plates
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Poems
- Apopendix A: Original Lines on a Fossil Tree in a Garden at Highgate
- Appendix B: The Convent Threshold (by Christina Rosetti)
- Appendix C: Latin Versions of Nursery Rhymes ascribed to Hopkins
- Commentary
- Table of poems and versions still in copyright
- Select bibliography
- Index of titles and first lines
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