Poems and Prose

by Hopkins, Gerard Manley (Author); Gardner, W. H. (Editor/introduction)

• ISBN13: 9780140420159
• ISBN10: 0140420150
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-12-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Romola is a historical novel set in late 15th-century Florence and is the story of a high-minded girl who marries a self-indulgent and unscrupulous Greek, Tito Melma.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Note to Tenth Impression	xxxvii
SECTION A--POETRY
Four Early Poems (1865-1866)
The Alchemist in the City	3	(1)
`Let me be to Thee as the circling bird'	4	(1)
Heaven-Haven	5	(1)
The Habit of Perfection	5	(7)
Poems (1876-1889)
Author's Preface (with explanatory notes by the Editor)	7	(5)
The Wreck of the Deutschland	12	(12)
Penmaen Pool	24	(2)
The Silver Jubilee	26	(1)
God's Grandeur	27	(1)
The Starlight Night	27	(1)
Spring	28	(1)
The Lantern out of Doors	28	(1)
The Sea and the Skylark	29	(1)
The Windhover	30	(1)
Pied Beauty	30	(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest	31	(1)
The Caged Skylark	31	(1)
In the Valley of the Elwy	32	(1)
The Loss of the Eurydice	33	(4)
The May Magnificat	37	(2)
Binsey Poplars	39	(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford	40	(1)
Henry Purcell	41	(1)
Peace	42	(1)
The Bugler's First Communion	42	(2)
Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice	44	(1)
Andromeda	45	(1)
The Candle Indoors	46	(1)
The Handsome Heart	46	(1)
At the Wedding March	47	(1)
Felix Randal	47	(1)
Brothers	48	(2)
Spring and Fall	50	(1)
Inversnaid	50	(1)
`As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame'	51	(1)
Ribblesdale	51	(1)
The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo	52	(2)
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe	54	(4)
To what serves Mortal Beauty?	58	(1)
Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves	59	(1)
(The Soldier)	60	(1)
(Carrion Comfort)	60	(1)
`No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief'	61	(1)
`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life'	61	(1)
`I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'	62	(1)
`Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray'	62	(1)
`My own heart let me more have pity on; let'	63	(1)
Tom's Garland	64	(1)
Harry Ploughman	64	(1)
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection	65	(1)
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez	66	(1)
`Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'	67	(1)
`The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns'	68	(1)
To R. B.	68	(1)
Some Unfinished Poems and Fragments (1876--1889)
Moonrise	69	(1)
The Woodlark	69	(2)
Cheery Beggar	71	(1)
`The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down'	71	(1)
St. Winefred's Well	72	(6)
(Margaret Clitheroe)	78	(2)
`Repeat that, repeat'	80	(1)
On a Piece of Music	80	(2)
(Ash-boughs)	82	(1)
`Thee, God, I come from, to thee go'	82	(1)
On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People	83	(2)
Epithalamion	85	(4)
SECTION B--PROSE
From Note-Books, Journal, etc.
Early Diary (1863-1864)	89	(3)
From `On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue' (1865)	92	(13)
From the Journal (1866-1875)	105	(31)
Sermon: on Luke ii. 33 (Nov. 23, 1879)	136	(7)
From `The Principle or Foundation: An address, etc.'	143	(2)
From `Comments on The Spiritual Exercises'	145	(6)
Selected Letters
To C. N. Luxmoore (May 7, 1862)	151	(2)
To A. W. M. Baillie (Sept. 10, 1864)	153	(6)
To E. H. Coleridge (Jan. 22, 1866)	159	(2)
To Rev. Dr J. H. Newman (Aug. 28, 1866)	161	(1)
do. (Oct. 15, 1866)	162	(2)
To his father (Oct. 16, [1866])	164	(4)
To A. W. M. Baillie (Feb. 12, 1868)	168	(2)
To Miss Kate Hopkins (April 25, 1871)	170	(2)
To Robert Bridges (Aug. 2, 1871)	172	(2)
To his mother (March 5, 1872)	174	(1)
To his father (Aug. 29, 1874)	175	(1)
To Robert Bridges (Feb. 20, 1875)	176	(1)
do. (May 13, 1878)	177	(3)
To R. W. Dixon (June 4, 1878)	180	(2)
do. (June 13, 1878)	182	(3)
do. (Oct. 5, 1878)	185	(5)
do. (Oct. 24, 1879)	190	(1)
do. (Oct. 31, 1879)	191	(1)
To A. W. M. Baillie (May 22, 1880)	192	(3)
To R. W. Dixon (Dec. I, 1881)	195	(2)
To Robert Bridges (Feb. 3, 1883)	197	(3)
To Robert Bridges (Nov. 11, 1884)	200	(2)
do. (May 17, 1885)	202	(4)
To Coventry Patmore (June 4, 1886)	206	(2)
do. (May 20, 1888)	208	(2)
To Robert Bridges (Sept. 25, 1888)	210	(1)
do. (Oct. 19, 1888)	211	(5)
To his mother (May 5, 1889)	216	(5)
SECTION C--EDITOR'S NOTES
Notes on the Poems	221	(28)
Additional Notes on the Prose	249	(6)
Short Bibliography	255	(2)
Index of First Lines	257	(2)
Index to the Prose	259