Very scarce in the wrapper

Manley Hopkins , Gerard : Bridges, Robert (Ed.) ~ Poems Of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Humphrey Milford, London : 1930

The Second UK printing published by Humphrey Milford, London in 1930. 8vo., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt to the upper board and spine; together in the seldom-found printed wrapper (unclipped, 7s. 6d. net); outer edges untrimmed; The BOOK a little pushed at the corners and spine; some minor fading to the tips; faintly spotted and offset to the end-papers; light spotting to the upper edge, Very Good++ condition otherwise; The WRAPPER is complete and is toned to the panels and more-so to the spine, with some splash marks to the spine. Creasing and nicks to the edges, and some larger chipping to spine ends and corners, with a little loss to the lettering. The Very Good wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Second edition, containing an appendix of additional poems, and a 'Critical Introduction' by Charles Williams. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was relatively unknown throughout his lifetime. Born in Essex to a strongly religious family, his father, also a poet, published a number of collections including 'A Philosopher's Stone and Other Poems' (1843) and 'Pietas Metrica' (1849). Manley Hopkins wrote his first poem, 'The Escorial' in 1860, after studying the works of Keats. It was while he was enrolled at Oxford that he formed a lifelong friendship with the poet Robert Bridges, the later Poet Laureate. Hopkins wrote poetry throughout his lifetime, though burned much of his output and ceased writing for long periods of time. After his death from typhoid fever in 1889 at the age of 44, it was only through the efforts of Bridges that his poetry was published. Bridges was responsible for circulating the poems to a wider audience, and in 1918 the first edition of these collected works was published. This example constitutes the second, expanded edition by the author and inklings group member, Charles Williams. Williams writes that it was with the printer when Bridges' death took place. "This edition", Williams writes, "becomes a memory not only of Gerard Hopkins but also of the poet, his friend, to whom all readers of either owe so great a devotion". It not only includes Hopkins' early output, and his unfinished poems and fragments, but also all of the verses for which he is best known today, including 'Binsey Poplars', 'Pied Beauty' and 'The Windhover'. Very scarce in the wrapper.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Very Good++
JACKET: Very Good