Selected Prose (Oxford Standard Authors)
Description
Oxford University Press, 1980. Trade paperback. (ISBN 0-19-281272-6) Edited by Gerald Roberts. Lovely cover illustration: detail from "Bluebells and other Flowers Growing Round a Tree Stump" by H. Larpent Roberts, Private Collection. Good copy, pages browning, good wrappers. Gerard Manley Hopkins became a Catholic in 1866 at the age of twenty-two and joined the Society of Jesus two years later. It was after this that he wrote the poetry that brought him posthumous fame, but his prose writings, here in Gerald Robert's fully annotated selection, bring us closer to the man and s...
ISBN(s)
0192812726, 9780192812728
