David Anthony Downes is Professor of English at California State University in Chico, California.

This is a valuable book...Downes argues throughout on solidly intellectual and Hopkinsean grounds... -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University The Heythrop Journal The most comprehensive and illuminating reading of the Ignatian sensibility in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Downes' new edition engages the most recent scholarship on Hopkins' spirituality, conducts a lively and fruitful dialogue with it, and demonstrates where Ignatian meditation shaped Hopkins' person, poetry, and poetics. -- Jude V. Nixon, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX The Heythrop Journal Whatever poem Downes examines, he illuminates it brilliantly. His writing is lucid without being simplistic, his analyses are scholarly without being pedantic. The first edition of this book has withstood the passage of time superbly; the new edition gives us a Hopkins for the 1990s and beyond. -- Eugene R. August, University of Dayton The Heythrop Journal ...welcome addition amid the plethora of...studies of Hopkins. -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University ...welcome addition amid the plethora of...studies of Hopkins. -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University This is a valuable book...Downes argues throughout on solidly intellectual and Hopkinsean grounds... -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University The Heythrop Journal The most comprehensive and illuminating reading of the Ignatian sensibility in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Downes' new edition engages the most recent scholarship on Hopkins' spirituality, conducts a lively and fruitful dialogue with it, and demonstrates where Ignatian meditation shaped Hopkins' person, poetry, and poetics. -- Jude V. Nixon, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX The Heythrop Journal Whatever poem Downes examines, he illuminates it brilliantly. His writing is lucid without being simplistic, his analyses are scholarly without being pedantic. The first edition of this book has withstood the passage of time superbly; the new edition gives us a Hopkins for the 1990s and beyond. -- Eugene R. August, University of Dayton The Heythrop Journal

David Anthony Downes is Professor of English at California State University in Chico, California.

This is a valuable book...Downes argues throughout on solidly intellectual and Hopkinsean grounds... -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University The Heythrop Journal The most comprehensive and illuminating reading of the Ignatian sensibility in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Downes' new edition engages the most recent scholarship on Hopkins' spirituality, conducts a lively and fruitful dialogue with it, and demonstrates where Ignatian meditation shaped Hopkins' person, poetry, and poetics. -- Jude V. Nixon, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX The Heythrop Journal Whatever poem Downes examines, he illuminates it brilliantly. His writing is lucid without being simplistic, his analyses are scholarly without being pedantic. The first edition of this book has withstood the passage of time superbly; the new edition gives us a Hopkins for the 1990s and beyond. -- Eugene R. August, University of Dayton The Heythrop Journal ...welcome addition amid the plethora of...studies of Hopkins. -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University ...welcome addition amid the plethora of...studies of Hopkins. -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University This is a valuable book...Downes argues throughout on solidly intellectual and Hopkinsean grounds... -- David J. Leigh, S.J., Seattle University The Heythrop Journal The most comprehensive and illuminating reading of the Ignatian sensibility in Gerard Manley Hopkins. Downes' new edition engages the most recent scholarship on Hopkins' spirituality, conducts a lively and fruitful dialogue with it, and demonstrates where Ignatian meditation shaped Hopkins' person, poetry, and poetics. -- Jude V. Nixon, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, TX The Heythrop Journal Whatever poem Downes examines, he illuminates it brilliantly. His writing is lucid without being simplistic, his analyses are scholarly without being pedantic. The first edition of this book has withstood the passage of time superbly; the new edition gives us a Hopkins for the 1990s and beyond. -- Eugene R. August, University of Dayton The Heythrop Journal