Selected Poems

I have been a fan of Hopkins ever since somebody gave me the Selected Poems, realising that not only were they absolutely great poems, but they spoke to me about what the deepest foundations of my own life were.

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Selected Poems

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Other books by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Major Works by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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The Major Works
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)