Hopkins, a Jesuit priest, published almost nothing in his lifetime. Nearly thirty years after his death his friend Robert Bridges, then Poet Laureate, brought out this edition, including The Wreck of the Deutschland, ‘The Windhover’, ‘Pied Beauty’ and the dark sonnets of his last years, with Hopkins’s own preface on sprung rhythm and Bridges’s notes.
The book that introduced one of the most original voices in English verse, essential for any lover of modern poetry. Download the free EPUB.