Hopkins' Idealism Philosophy Physics Poetry Author:Daniel Brown, Gerard Manley Hopkins Hopkins' Idealism provides a thorough re-examination of the nineteenth-century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), whose early writings on philosophy have to date received little critical attention. It is the first full-length study of Hopkins' largely unpublished Oxford undergraduate essays and notes on philosophy and mechanics. The volume ... more »also offers radical new readings of some of Hopkins' best-known poems.« less