2nd Edition

A Preface to Hopkins

By Graham Storey Copyright 1992
172 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

An authoritative guide to the life and works of Hopkins, for those who require a good introduction from which to explore the author's works more fully.

Part one The Poet in his Setting; Chapter 1 Chronological table; Chapter 1a Hopkins's life; Chapter 2 Religious background; Chapter 3 Literary background; Part two Critical Survey; Introduction; Chapter 5 The Wreck of the Deutschland; Chapter 6 The Starlight Night; Chapter 7 The Windhover: To Christ our Lord; Chapter 8 Hurrahing in Harvest; Chapter 9 Henry Purcell; Chapter 10 Felix Randal; Chapter 11 Inversnaid; Chapter 12 'As kingfishers catch fire'; Chapter 13 Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves; Chapter 14 (Carrion Comfort); Chapter 15 That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection; Part three Reference Section; Chapter 16 Gazetteer; Chapter 17 Short biographies; Chapter 18 Further reading;

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Storey, Graham