A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet. Gerald Roberts gives a chronological description and analysis of Hopkins's career and writing, and pays due attention to the Victorian and Jesuit background. The resulting picture is of a man divided between the religious and the aesthetic life, a story of apparent failure and real achievement.

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Preface - Acknowledgements - The Road to Parnassus - Chasing the Master - The Convert - Hocking and the Jesuits - The Journal - The Jesuits - Towards the 'Deutschland' - The Return to Poetry - The Poet and the Priest - Oxford - At Bedford Leigh - Liverpool - Glasgow - Training completed - At Stonyhurst - Heraclitean Fire - Afterwards - Bibliography - Notes - Index