This book restores the poet to his full intellectual and literary context as a Victorian convert to Catholicism.

Contents Acknowledgments Endnote Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Newman, Hopkins, and Heaven-Haven: A Literary Conversion Chapter Two: One 'fetch' in him: Hopkins's Ultramontane Vision in The Wreck of the Deutschland Chapter Three: These things were here and but the beholder wanting: Hopkins's Nature Sonnets and the Victorian Catholic Response to Evolution Chapter Four: The Lost are like this: Victorian Catholic Eschatology and Hopkins's Dublin Poems Notes Bibliography Index