Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Hopkins’s Manifesto – ‘Poetry and Verse’ 1
6. 1. Sprung Rhythm: The Music of Speech 18
7. 2. Sprung Rhythm: The Music of Verse 46
8. 3. Lettering: Rhyme ‘Widely’ Understood 73
9. 4. ‘Inscape’ and Poetic Meaning 96
10. 5. Poetry as the Language of the Body 124
11. Conclusion: ‘The Music of His Mind’ – Hopkins’s Poetry and His Poetics 142
12. Works Cited 151
13. Index 157