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INTRODUCTION Paradoxically, Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose poetry was regarded as inaccessible and 'modern' long after his death, was in many ways a characteristic Victorian. Born in 1844, to prosperous and cultivated middle-class parents, he was to be much influenced by Ruskin, whose minuteness...

THE ARABIAN NIGHTSIn the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassa-nidae, who reigned, for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of the race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time....

INTRODUCTION 'Personally, 1 have a dread of the sonnet,' wrote Edward Thomas in a letter. 'It must contain fourteen lines, and a man must be a tremendous poet or a cold mathematician if he can accommodate his thoughts to such a condition.' 'Some Eyes Condemn', his sonnet on page 60, shows how...