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
Published: 03/28/2008
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780754660057

About the Author
Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, is Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.