San Antonio College Library

"Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) is one of English poetry's most brilliant innovators, and one of the most distinguished poets of any age. However, during his lifetime he was known not as a poet, but as a Jesuit priest, and his faith was essential to his work. This collection contains not only all of Hopkins's significant poetry, but also selections from his journals, sermons, and letters, all chosen for their spiritual guidance and insight. His...

Aims to provide both background information on and assessments of the lyric. This work includes features of formal and thematic importance: they are rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, and suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

I made the first step toward this study of William Langland's fourteenth-century poem 'Piers Plowman (The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman) in 1958. Keeping in mind the student and the general reader, I have sought the man Langland, a poet of whom there is much to be said, and I have highlighted the features which I believe to be of most use to the beginner. This book is, therefore, more literal than might be expected by experienced students...