Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

HOPKINS, Gerald Manley.

Published by Humphrey Milford, London, 1918

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Half title + TP + 1 leaf = Dedication page + 1 leaf = Contents + [1]-124, Octavo. 2 photogravure portraits by Emery Walker and a folded facsimile page. First Edition. Margaret are you grieving / Over Goldengrove unleaving? One of just 750 copies printed. Gerard Manley Hopkins is considered to be one of the great poets of the late Victorian era. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I. Hopkins's family encouraged his artistic talents when he was a youth in Essex, England. However, Hopkins became estranged from his Protestant family when he converted to Roman Catholicism. After becoming a Jesuit in 1875, he burned all of the poetry he had written up until that time. Three of those poems survive in this book but the others published here were written during the last fourteen years of his life. The poet died in 1889 after contracting typhoid fever while making one of his visits to the slum s of Dublin as a priest. This collection was put together by Hopkins' friend, the Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, who assembled these poems from letters and other sources and published this book nineteen years after Hopkins' death. Apart from a very few poems published in anthologies, most of these works remained unpublished until their appearance here. "Hopkins's poetry, with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his 'dark night of the soul' would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance - like Rimbaud's in France - had they but known him." (Connolly, # 33). Original light blue paper boards with cream cloth spine and paper label. Slight wear to spine label effecting two letters. Overall, a lovely copy. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
• Publisher: Humphrey Milford, London
• Publication Date: 1918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: FIRST EDITION.
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