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Zusatztext These volumes are superb examples of textual editing and will contribute immediately to the reinvigoration of Hopkins scholarship Informationen zum Autor Kelsey Thornton received his Doctorate from Manchester in 1971 for work on the poets of the English 1890s, and retired in 2000 from the chair of English Literature at Birmingham University (he had previously held the chair at Newcastle upon Tyne), to concentrate on writing and editing. He has written on and edited the poetry of Hopkins, John Clare, the Decadents, Ivor Gurney, Nicholas Hilliard, Ernest Dowson, F. W. Harvey, W. W. Gibson, and he has edited the Journalsof the John Clare Society (1990-96) and the Ivor Gurney Society (from 1995 until the present). He has in the last decade taken to publishing his poetry which, with painting and drawing, form his usual relaxation. Catherine Phillips has degrees from Queen's University, Canada, the University of Toronto and Cambridge, where she is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Downing College. Her publications include a monograph on Gerard Manley Hopkins and various aspects of art in the nineteenth century, editions of Hopkins's poetry and letters, a biography of Robert Bridges, manuscripts of a play by W. B. Yeats for the Cornell Yeats series, and articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century writers.Currently she is editing the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins for the Collected Works to be published by Oxford University Press (8 volumes). Klappentext Hopkins's letters are his secular confessional and if we wish to understand the man and his poetry, they cannot be ignored. For this edition the letters have been re-transcribed from their original manuscripts, they are presented in chronological order with all deletions and corrections included, and are accompanied by scrupulous annotation. The collected works of Hopkins being published by Oxford represent a major achievement for everyone interested in the poet and his work. Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books Zusammenfassung Hopkins's letters are his secular confessional and if we wish to understand the man and his poetry, they cannot be ignored. For this edition the letters have been re-transcribed from their original manuscripts, they are presented in chronological order with all deletions and corrections included, and are accompanied by scrupulous annotation....
