These study guides were prepared to help generate discussion of Hopkins's poetry and to assist students and readers as they encounter some of Hopkins's most popular poems. For a glossary of Hopkins-related literary terminology, please refer to the Terminology page. Readers may also wish to consult these more detailed guides: Paul Mariani, A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1970); Norman H. MacKenzie, A Reader’s Guide to Gerard Manley Hopkins (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981).

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