{"product_id":"the-collected-works-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-9780192889140","title":"The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSketches and Scholarly Studies: Part II, Musical Settings and Sketches brings together two crucial aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins''s insatiable drive to create: drawing, predominantly (but not exclusively) from the early part of his life, when he had ambitions to be a painter; and music, from the later part of his life, when he found in music suggestions of a new contact with the eternal. Hopkins grew up in a home that emphasized cultural and artistic accomplishments; his brothers Arthur and Everard were both professional illustrators, and his sister Grace was an accomplished pianist. Limited as the corpus of Hopkins''s drawings is--four small sketchbooks and a handful of loose drawings--there is certainly evidence to suggest that he might have been a successful illustrator adhering to Ruskinian principles. This edition reproduces the surviving drawings, with a full introduction and annotations placing them in the context of Hopkins''s creative life. His musical compositions are pres","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577238327639,"sku":"9780192889140","price":152.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192889140.jpg?v=1746094499","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-collected-works-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-9780192889140","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}