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...the book is a good starting point for what promises, when completed, to be a huge contribution to Hopkins scholarship and a joy to both scholars and general readers. The exhaustive - yet for this reader downright exhilarating, never exhausting - work that Higgins has done... Barbara Gelpi, English Literature in Translation Students of Hopkins' writings will welcome this intellectual juvenilia and will appreciate the high standard of editorial work that has gone into preparing it. Contemporary Review Along with a detailed introduction, an extensive bibliography, and copious notes, the new volume puts a wealth of previously-unpublished material at the disposal of scholars and general readers of Hopkins Adrian Grafe, Notes and Queries

...the book is a good starting point for what promises, when completed, to be a huge contribution to Hopkins scholarship and a joy to both scholars and general readers. The exhaustive - yet for this reader downright exhilarating, never exhausting - work that Higgins has done... Barbara Gelpi, English Literature in Translation Students of Hopkins' writings will welcome this intellectual juvenilia and will appreciate the high standard of editorial work that has gone into preparing it. Contemporary Review

Most useful to the contemporary 'international readership' is the editors' introduction [...] which sketches the poet's life rapidly and winningly, quoting some of the best lines in the best letters and outlining the difficulties - real and self-inflicted - of Hopkins's career. Helen Vendler, London Review of Books, ...the book is a good starting point for what promises, when completed, to be a huge contribution to Hopkins scholarship and a joy to both scholars and general readers. The exhaustive - yet for this reader downright exhilarating, never exhausting - work that Higgins has done... Barbara Gelpi, English Literature in Translation Students of Hopkins' writings will welcome this intellectual juvenilia and will appreciate the high standard of editorial work that has gone into preparing it. Contemporary Review Along with a detailed introduction, an extensive bibliography, and copious notes, the new volume puts a wealth of previously-unpublished material at the disposal of scholars and general readers of Hopkins Adrian Grafe, Notes and Queries

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Lesley Higgins, Professor of English at York University (Toronto, Canada), specializes in Victorian and modernist literature and culture. She has published extensively on Hopkins, his tutor Walter Pater, and modernism. Together with Michael F. Suarez, S.J., she is the general editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and co-editor of Volume VIII, The Dublin Notebook; she is also editing Volume III, Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks.

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