Kelsey Thornton, the son of an artist, is retired and balances editing with painting and writing. He was Head of Department of English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne until 1990, and a Professor at the University of Birmingham until 2000. He has edited and published on a variety of writers, often supposedly minor figures: Hilliard, Clare, Gurney, Skipsey, Harvey, Gibson, Dowson, although Hopkins, by no means a minor writer, has occupied much of his time.

• Chronology


• Introduction


• The Student


• M.I.1-21 Fragments


• M.I.1 Euripides


• M.I.3 Vocabulary 'divisor'


• M.I.4 Sallust


• M.I.5 Aeneid and Caerites


• M.I.6 Macedonian kings


• M.I.7 Nacidienus


• M.I.8 Livy and Herodotus


• [M.I.9 Not in GMH's hand: List of classical topics]


• M.I.10 Draft examination paper


• M.I.11 Livy's History and the Scythians


• M.I.12 Notes for examination


• M.I.13 Vocabulary notes


• M.I.14 Notes on prepositions


• M.I.15 Ovid and vocabulary


• M.I.16 Philemon and vocabulary


• M.I.17 Sodes and translation of Homer into Latin


• M.I.18 Thucydides and figures of speech


• M.I.19 Vocabulary


• M.I.20 Nautical terms


• M.I.21 Maps


• B.II. Classical Studies Notebook


• B.I. Mathematics Notebook


• G.I. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics


• M.II. Nicomachean Ethics


• The Tutor


• Fragment on three kinds of poetry


• K.II. Poetry and Verse


• K.I. Rhythm and other structural parts of rhetoric-verse


• The Professor


• G.II. Notes for Roman Literature and Antiquities


• M.III.3. Notes on Greek play


• M.III.1 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes


• M.III.2. Notes on Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes


• M.IV Metrical notes on Aeschylus


• M.V Loose notes on Homer


• Annotated Homer in Gonzaga


• M.VI Notes on Homer


• M.VII. 1-3 Dublin examination papers


• Cicero, 'On Duty' (Dublin Notebook)


• Bibliography


• Index

Sketches and Scholarly Studies: Part 1: Academic, Classical, and Lectures on Poetry offers an original perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins's training as a classicist. R. K. R. Thornton's edition reveals how careful a scholar Hopkins was, how intricate his knowledge of the Classics, and how his critical positions developed.