Priest, convert, and secret genius, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a poetry unlike anything before it - packed, sprung, and straining with the "inscape" of the living world. Here are the great hymns of praise - God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Spring and Fall - and, at the book's dark heart, the "terrible sonnets" of his last desolate years, wrung from a soul in the grip of despair: Carrion Comfort, No worst, there is none, I wake and feel the fell of dark.
This Northlume Library edition presents the complete 1918 collection edited by Robert Bridges, together with Hopkins's own preface on his sprung rhythm - the poems that waited thirty years for a world ready to read them, freshly set behind an original mixed-media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.