{"product_id":"oxford-essays-and-notes-9780199285457","title":"Oxford Essays and Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gerard Manley Hopkins | Lesley Higgins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first of eight volumes of Hopkins's \u003cem\u003eCollected Works\u003c\/em\u003e to be published, \u003cem\u003eOxford Essays and Notes\u003c\/em\u003e presents a remarkable cache of previously unpublished papers, including forty-five essays which Hopkins produced during his undergraduate career at Oxford (1863-1867), only seven of which were reproduced in the 1959 edition of \u003cem\u003eJournals and Papers\u003c\/em\u003e. Topics range from Platonic philosophy to theories of the imagination, from ancient history to then-contemporary politics and voting rights. Also included are notes from a commonplace book, a remarkable \"dialogue\" about aesthetics (featuring a fictionalized John Ruskin figure), and the lecture notes Hopkins prepared in the winter of 1868 while teaching at John Henry Newman's Oratory School in Birmingham--writings in which he explores, for the first time, the theories of \u003cem\u003einscape\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003einstress\u003c\/em\u003e so central to his poetic practice. The edition is fully annotated and provides a detailed introduction that situates historically Hopkins's academic and\u003cbr\u003ecreative efforts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe twelve notebooks represent Hopkins's intellectual and aesthetic development while studying with some of the greatest scholars of the era (Benjamin Jowett, Walter Pater, and T. H. Green), as well as the ethical and spiritual anxieties he wrestled with while deciding to convert to Catholicism (John Henry Newman received him into the Church in 1866). Hopkins never wrote to please his tutors or the university professors--he wrote vividly and searchingly in response to the challenges they presented. Whether evaluating Aristotle's \u003cem\u003eNicomachean Ethics\u003c\/em\u003e, the role of \"neutral\" England in the American civil war, or the comparative merits of classical sculpture, his first instinct was always to frame the difficult questions involved and work towards a \"counter\" argument.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891999326359,"sku":"9780199285457","price":39132.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199285457.webp?v=1781185418","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/oxford-essays-and-notes-9780199285457","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}