Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Book Overview

Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of English poetry's most brilliant stylistic innovators, and one of the most distinguished poets of any age. However, during his lifetime he was known not as a poet but as a Jesuit priest, and his faith was essential to his work. His writings combine an intense feeling for nature with an ecstatic awareness of its divine origins, most remarkably expressed in his magnificent and highly original 'sprung rhythm.' This collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375725660
• ISBN13: 9780375725661
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"