A Preface to Hopkins: Preface Books

Part one The Poet in his Setting; Chapter 1 Chronological table; Chapter 1a Hopkins's life; Chapter 2 Religious background; Chapter 3 Literary background; Part two Critical Survey; Introduction; Chapter 5 The Wreck of the Deutschland; Chapter 6 The Starlight Night; Chapter 7 The Windhover: To Christ our Lord; Chapter 8 Hurrahing in Harvest; Chapter 9 Henry Purcell; Chapter 10 Felix Randal; Chapter 11 Inversnaid; Chapter 12 'As kingfishers catch fire'; Chapter 13 Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves; Chapter 14 (Carrion Comfort); Chapter 15 That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection; Part three Reference Section; Chapter 16 Gazetteer; Chapter 17 Short biographies; Chapter 18 Further reading;

An authoritative guide to the life and works of Hopkins, for those who require a good introduction from which to explore the author's works more fully.