The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume VI: Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part 1: Academic, Classical, and Lectures on Poetry

Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part 1: Academic, Classical, and Lectures on Poetry offers an original perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins's training as a classicist. R. K. R. Thornton's edition attempts to follow the turns of Hopkins's mind, and to clarify what he was exploring. The notes and introductions reveal how careful a scholar Hopkins was, how intricate his knowledge of the Classics, and how his critical positions developed. The edition reveals in all its detail the range of Hopkins's research into the notion of poetry itself, when he prepared for his fellow Jesuits a course on 'rhetoric'. These areas were his training ground before he launched into his new-found poetic with 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'. Through this authoritative critical edition, we see Hopkins's continued exploration of metrics and glimpses of material which would grow into the major poetry that we know, but everywhere we can see the acuity of Hopkins's mind.

Chronology
Introduction
The Student
M.I.1-21 Fragments
M.I.1 Euripides
M.I.3 Vocabulary 'divisor'
M.I.4 Sallust
M.I.5 Aeneid and Caerites
M.I.6 Macedonian kings
M.I.7 Nacidienus
M.I.8 Livy and Herodotus
[M.I.9 Not in GMH's hand: List of classical topics]
M.I.10 Draft examination paper
M.I.11 Livy's History and the Scythians
M.I.12 Notes for examination
M.I.13 Vocabulary notes
M.I.14 Notes on prepositions
M.I.15 Ovid and vocabulary
M.I.16 Philemon and vocabulary
M.I.17 Sodes and translation of Homer into Latin
M.I.18 Thucydides and figures of speech
M.I.19 Vocabulary
M.I.20 Nautical terms
M.I.21 Maps
B.II. Classical Studies Notebook
B.I. Mathematics Notebook
G.I. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
M.II. Nicomachean Ethics
The Tutor
Fragment on three kinds of poetry
K.II. Poetry and Verse
K.I. Rhythm and other structural parts of rhetoric-verse
The Professor
G.II. Notes for Roman Literature and Antiquities
M.III.3. Notes on Greek play
M.III.1 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
M.III.2. Notes on Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
M.IV Metrical notes on Aeschylus
M.V Loose notes on Homer
Annotated Homer in Gonzaga
M.VI Notes on Homer
M.VII. 1-3 Dublin examination papers
Cicero, 'On Duty' (Dublin Notebook)
Bibliography
Index