The existential torment of Gerard Hopkins, the perfect Victorian poet for the 20th century

“Poems 1875-1889” is the selection edited by Viola Papetti published for Einaudi. Opportunity to get to know the author: from joining the Jesuits, to pantheistic tendencies and, again, to the repressed homoerotic impulse

A selection of the “Poems 1875-1889” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The edition includes an extensive introduction, a rich commentary on the texts, and in the appendix an early essay by Giorgio Manganelli on the religious lyricism of the modern English. It would be an understatement to call Hopkins a great Victorian poet.