Hopkins' Idealism Philosophy, Physics, Poetry [Hardcover]

Hopkins' Idealismprovides a thorough re-examination of the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), whose early writings on philosophy have to date received little critical attention. It is the first full-length study of Hopkins' largely unpublished Oxford undergraduate essays and notes on philosophy and mechanics. The volume also offers radical new readings of some of Hopkins' best-known poems.

The author drives his extremely well researched arguments with copious, often delightful references to the poetry. This important book deserves the attention not only of Hopkins scholars but of all students of 19th-century thought. --Choice