Recent Publications

Note: the publications listed below are limited to books published in the last few years—the intent is simply to provide a quick and handy update. Detailed reviews of books on Hopkins appear frequently in the Hopkins Quarterly and other journals. Coverage of both books and articles for the previous year can be found in each fall issue of the journal Victorian Poetry.


Bernd Jentzsch, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Euskirchen, Germany: Chidher Verlag, 2018.

Dubois, Martin. Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience. Cambridge UP, 2017.

Edge, Simon. The Hopkins Conundrum: a Tragic Comedy About Gerard Manley Hopkins and Five Shipwrecked Nuns. Chicago: Eye Books, 2017.

Egan, Desmond. Hopeful Hopkins: Essays. Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland: Goldsmith Press, 2017.

Ellsberg, Margaret R. ed. The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins: Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual Writings. Walden, NY: Plough Publishing, 2017.

Evans, Amy. Stalking Gerard Manley Hopkins [poems]. Milwaukee, WI: Salient Seedling Press, 2016.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Prosa Completa. Spain: Ediciones Encuentro, 2019.

Nixon, Jude V. The Poetry and Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, special issue of Religion and the Arts, edited by Jude V. Nixon, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2018.

Virkar Yates, Aakanksha. The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Westover, Daniel and Thomas Alan Holmes, eds. The Fire That Breaks: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poetic Legacies. Clemson, SC: Clemson UP, 2019.

Westover, Daniel and William Wright, eds. The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins. Clemson, SC: Clemson UP, 2016.

[All through these recent years, readers should also take note of the successive volumes of the Collected Works being published by the Oxford University Press. Six of the eight projected volumes are now out;  only volumes 6 and 8 remain, including the definitive texts of Hopkins’s poems.]

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