Hopkins's 'Dublin Notebook' brings us closer to Hopkins's life and times than any other volume, providing a digitized facsimile of the large journal he used for academic, personal, and religious notes, accompanied by a careful transcription of the hand-written text, and thorough explanatory notes to guide the reader.

• Introduction


• Editorial Notes


• Manuscript


• Principles of Transcription


• Citing Other Works by Hopkins


• Short-titles of Poems


• Text of the Dublin Notebook


• Appendices


• Appendix A: Documents related to Hopkins's academic appointments


• Appendix B: William Collins, 'Ode to Evening'


• Appendix C: Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves'


• Appendix D: Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'Richard Watson Dixon'


• Appendix E: Hopkins's notes on Pindar


• Appendix F: RUI Matriculation Examination, September 1884


• Appendix G: Documents from the Campion Hall archive


• Appendix H: Cicero, On Duty


• Appendix I: Retreat Notes, 1889


• Appendix J: Campion Hall MS GI.a Codicology and Analysis of Inks and Writing Stints


• Biographical Register


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Lesley Higgins is a Professor in the Department of English, York University, where she specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, poetry, and feminist studies. In 2002, she published The Modernist Cult of Ugliness: Aesthetic and Gender Politics (Palgrave) and co-edited Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire (ELT Press). More recently, and together with Elicia Clements, she is the co-editor of Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts (Palgrave, 2010). With Michael F. Suarez, S.J., she is the co-general editor of the Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, an eight-volume project (OUP) being prepared by an international team of six editors. The first volume in the series, her edition of Hopkins's Oxford Essays and Notes, was published in 2006. With David Latham, she is the co-general editor of the Collected Works of Walter Pater, now in development for OUP.
Michael F. Suarez is University Professor and Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. The holder of research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, he is also Honorary Curator of the University of Virginia's special collections and Professor of English. His most recent publication is The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010), a million-word reference work on the history of books and manuscripts from the invention of writing to the present day.A Jesuit priest, Michael is currently co-General Editor, with Lesley Higgins, of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO).