Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context, edited by Martin Dubois

A very informative and well-conceived text, which sets out to place the poet in his Victorian context.Divided into thirty-eight parts, each about eight pages in length, it is replete with copious notes, a timeline, an introduction, and notes on the author/scholars who contributed their expertise to this volume.The book is divided into seven parts, beginning with the places Hopkins lived, and which shaped his poems-beginning with London and environs, Oxford, Wales, Northern England, and finally Ireland