Books by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Major Works
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Anyone who has practised criminal law for as long as I have knows that human beings are 'dappled things' – there is something ugly about everyone beautiful. There is something hypocritical about everyone who is very moral.
Selected Poems
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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.
Interviews where books by Gerard Manley Hopkins were recommended
The best books on Poetry, recommended by John F Deane
The Irish poet and writer finds inspiration in the work of friends and fellow poets who combine relishing the wonders of the physical universe with a mystic, religious side – all best discussed over a few pints
The best books on Ethics in Public Life, recommended by Alex Carlile
The Lib Dem peer says that reading Cicero’s speeches, George Eliot’s novels and Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems can help us manage the ethical dilemmas of our own historical moment, and provide clues to human nature
