Hopkins Poems And Prose

An exciting addition to Everyman’s Library—a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world’s classic poets.

The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are dazzling celebrations of God’s endless creative power couched in a uniquely expressive poetic diction, …