HOPKINS, Gerard Manley (1844?1889). Poems of? Edited by Rob...

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Apr 26, 2022

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  HOPKINS, Gerard Manley (1844?1889). Poems of? Edited by Robert Bridges. London: [Oxford University Press for] Humphrey Milford, 1918. 8vo. 2 portraits engravings under tissue by Emery Walker, 2 double?page facsimiles of autograph poems, and 2 in?text facsimiles of the author?s signature. Original publisher?s holland backed?boards, printed spine label, uncut (mild toning to covers and spine); morocco?backed folding box. FIRST EDITION, limited to 750 copies of Hopkins? first published collection of work. Unread except by a small coterie of friends during his lifetime, ?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 of him? (Connolly, The Modern Movement 33).
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