This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.

This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.

Others decry his monasticism as the regrettably oppressive regimen from which he was able to escape only occasionally through his sensuous, sometimes overtly ho

'Will surely rank as one of the foremost literary biographies of our time.' John Carey, Sunday Times In his lifetime Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) published