Description
Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins' poetry presents:
- extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the present
- annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews and critical works
- unabridged texts of twenty-nine of Hopkins' most important poems, with detailed annotations
- cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
- suggestions for futher reading.
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hopkins's work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
About the Author
Alice Jenkins is lecturer in the department of English at the University of Glasgow
Book Information
ISBN 9780415255240
Author Alice Jenkins
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 249g
