Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Makers of Modern Literature

Norfolk, CT: New Directions Books, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (18cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in navy blue on spine; dustjacket; [viii],144pp; frontispiece illustration. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pencilled signature to front flyleaf, and occasional pencilled marginal marks throughout. Shelf-wear and soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50), with shelf-wear and -soil, 1" tear to upper spine panel, 0.5" tear to upper front panel, and tiny tears and creases to extremities; Good.

Collection of essays on Hopkins, many first published by The Kenyon Review (1944), including Austin Warren's "Instress of Inscape", Robert Lowell's "Hopkins' Sanctity", and Arthur Mizener's "Victorian Hopkins". [88013].