The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Renowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, offers a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins that begins the next phase in Hopkins studies. In both his poetry and prose Feeney discovers a distinctive playfulness inextricably bound to Hopkins's creativity, style, and poetic competitiveness-even, strikingly, in "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and the "Terrible Sonnets." No one who absorbs these radical readings will ever see his poems the same way.

• | Author: Joseph J. Feeney
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 228 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0754660052
• | ISBN-13: 9780754660057