Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins' poetry presents:extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the presentannotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews and critical worksunabridged texts of twenty-nine of Hopkins' most important poems, with detailed annotationscross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticismsuggestions for futher reading. Part of theRoutledge Guides to Literatureseries, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Hopkins's work and seeking not only a guide to the poems, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them. | The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Alice Jenkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters