Brown, Daniel, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Northcote House Publishers, 2002.

This book provides an accessible introduction to Hopkins’s poetry in the light of his prose writings, which are used to illuminate Hopkins’s thinking on nature, prosody, language, philosophy, science, and theology, as well as his ideas on inscape and sprung rhythm.

Heaney, Seamus, ed., Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, W. W. Norton, 2001.

In his translation of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem, the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has preserved the alliterative and rhythmical patterns and the profusion of kennings that characterized the original. The poem tells the story of the warrior Beowulf and his battles with three monsters.

Muller, Jill, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding, Routledge, 2003.

Muller examines Hopkins’s life, writings, and spirituality in the context of a newly industrialized, anti-Catholic, and increasingly secular England. She shows how...