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"The world is charged with the grandeur of God." |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins'
Poems |
| "After Hopkins' death, Robert Bridges began to publish a few of Hopkins's most mature poems in anthologies, hoping to prepare the way for wider acceptance of his style. By 1918, Bridges, then poet laureate, judged the time opportune for the first collected edition. It appeared but sold slowly. Not until 1930 was a second edition issued, and thereafter Hopkins' work was recognized as among the most original, powerful, and influential literary accomplishments of his century; it had a marked influence on such leading 20th-century poets as T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis" (John Cowie Reid). |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918. Octavo, original 1/2 buckram over original blue boards. First edition of the works of this most influential
poet. Bookplate. Spine darkened, minor soiling to boards, with inoffensive
markings; interior clean. An exceptionally
nice copy of one of the most important books of modern poetry. Rare. |