Note on the Author and Editor | |
Chronology of Hopkins's Life and Times | |
Dedication | |
Introduction | |
The Escorial | p. 3 |
Winter with the Gulf Stream | p. 7 |
Spring and Death | p. 8 |
New Readings | p. 9 |
Heaven-Haven | p. 9 |
'I must hunt down the prize' | p. 10 |
'Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses' | p. 10 |
'It was a hard thing to undo this knot' | p. 10 |
'Miss Story's character! too much you ask' | p. 11 |
Io | p. 12 |
To Oxford | p. 13 |
The Alchemist in the City | p. 14 |
To Oxford | p. 15 |
'Myself unholy, from myself unholy' | p. 16 |
'See how Spring opens with disabling cold' | p. 16 |
'My prayers must meet a brazen heaven' | p. 17 |
Shakspere | p. 17 |
'Let me be to Thee as the circling bird' | p. 18 |
The Half-way House | p. 18 |
A Complaint | p. 19 |
'Moonless darkness stands between' | p. 20 |
'The earth and heaven, so little known' | p. 20 |
'The stars were packed so close that night' | p. 21 |
The Nightingale | p. 22 |
The Habit of Perfection | p. 23 |
Nondum | p. 24 |
Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea | p. 26 |
Horace: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus | p. 27 |
Horace: Odi profanum volgus et arceo | p. 28 |
The Elopement | p. 29 |
The Wreck of the Deutschland | p. 31 |
Moonrise | p. 40 |
The Silver Jubilee | p. 41 |
The Woodlark | p. 41 |
Penmaen Pool | p. 43 |
God's Grandeur | p. 44 |
The Starlight Night | p. 45 |
Spring | p. 45 |
In the Valley of the Elwy | p. 46 |
The Sea and the Skylark | p. 46 |
The Windhover | p. 47 |
Pied Beauty | p. 48 |
Hurrahing in Harvest | p. 48 |
The Caged Skylark | p. 49 |
The Lantern out of Doors | p. 49 |
The Loss of the Eurydice | p. 50 |
The May Magnificat | p. 53 |
'Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit' | p. 55 |
'The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down' | p. 55 |
'He might be slow and something feckless first' | p. 56 |
'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been' | p. 56 |
Binsey Poplars | p. 57 |
Duns Scotus's Oxford | p. 58 |
Henry Purcell | p. 58 |
'Repeat that, repeat' | p. 59 |
The Candle Indoors | p. 60 |
The Handsome Heart | p. 60 |
'How all's to one thing wrought!' | p. 61 |
Cheery Beggar | p. 62 |
The Bugler's First Communion | p. 62 |
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice | p. 64 |
Andromeda | p. 65 |
Peace | p. 65 |
At the Wedding March | p. 66 |
Felix Randal | p. 67 |
Brothers | p. 67 |
Spring and Fall | p. 69 |
Inversnaid | p. 69 |
'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame' | p. 70 |
Ribblesdale | p. 70 |
A Trio of Triolets | p. 71 |
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo | p. 72 |
from St. Winefred's Well | p. 74 |
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe | p. 80 |
'The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less' | p. 83 |
'Not of all my eyes see, wandering on the world' | p. 84 |
'To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life' | p. 84 |
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' | p. 85 |
'Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then' | p. 86 |
'No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief' | p. 86 |
To what serves Mortal Beauty? | p. 87 |
'Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee' | p. 87 |
'Yes. Why do we all, seeing of a soldier, bless him?' | p. 88 |
'Thee, God, I come from, to thee go' | p. 89 |
'Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray' | p. 89 |
'My own heart let me more have pity on' | p. 90 |
To his Watch | p. 91 |
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves | p. 91 |
On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People | p. 92 |
Harry Ploughman | p. 93 |
Tom's Garland | p. 94 |
Epithalamion | p. 95 |
'The sea took pity: it interposed with doom' | p. 97 |
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection | p. 97 |
In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez | p. 98 |
'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend' | p. 99 |
'The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning' | p. 99 |
To R. B. | p. 100 |
Selected Prose | p. 101 |
Early Diaries and Journals | p. 101 |
Letters | p. 129 |
Devotional Writings | p. 160 |
Modern Critical Views | p. 185 |
Explanatory Notes to the Poems | p. 248 |
Suggestions for Further-Reading | p. 313 |
Note on the Text | p. 316 |
Acknowledgements | p. 317 |
Index of Titles and First Lines (Poetry) | p. 319 |
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