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Hopkins, Gerard Manley; Abbott, Claude Coller (ed.).
The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon [with] The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges [and] Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins including his Correspondence with Coventry Patmore [the publisher’s file copies].
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1970
Stock Code: 14986
Second edition, second impression, revised and enlarged after the firsts of 1935 and 1938. Octavo, three volumes, pp., xxxi, [1], 194; xlviii, [1], 324; xliii, [3], 465, [1]. All printed on laid paper. Photolithographic portrait frontispieces of the author, plus further photolithographs within text. All in the original publisher’s orange-tan cloth, titled in gilt to spines, in the publisher’s original unclipped dust-jackets. Oxford University Press publisher’s file stickers to end of each volume. Light soiling to jackets, spine-panels lightly toned. Bindings strong and square. Contents clean and free of annotations or inscriptions. A near-fine set in like jackets. The first standard edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ correspondence, with introductions and editorial commentary by Claude Coller Abbott. Hopkins (1844-89) was unknown as a poet in his lifetime. It was not until his rediscovery by scholars in the early twentieth century that Hopkins became a popular modern poet. These volumes of correspondence by, as Abbott calls him ‘a letter-writer of the first rank’ reveal Hopkins’ relationship with other poets, and the development of his art over the course of his life. The publisher’s file copies of this scholarly edition.
Heavyweight, so an additional postage contribution may be requested for shipping to overseas addresses. £125.00