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London: Cast Iron Press, 1993. Illustrated by Cook, Kandis. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1898761000 Large slender 8vo, pp (16), paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of wear, otherwise a very good copy. With prospectus loosely inserted. SCARCE. (EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS A PROOF COPY] (Book ref. 008190)
Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1895. Illustrated by Edwards, George Wharton & F. Hopkinson Smith. Decorative Cloth. Good. Illustrated with drawings throughout, small 8vo, pp (c.112), top edge gilt, (pages 5 - 9 a bit stained), cream and grey cloth, decorated in gilt, a little worn and marked. (Book ref. 007724)
Amsterdam: V.O.C., 1981. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly Worn & Faded. 9065600019 Illustrated, small slim 12mo, pp (58), neat small inscription on front endpaper, othewise a clean copy in a lightly worn dustwrapper. [Love poems and floral arrangements] Postage will be much reduced. (Book ref. 007715)
London: Walter Scott Limited. Decorative Cloth. Fair. Not dated. Frontispiece of Lord Nelson, small square 12mo, pp xxxii, 293, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, a little age-toned and slightly foxed, hinge after title page slightly cracked (and title pages separating slightly at the bottom), lower cover creased (but mainly evident inside rather than out), decorated cloth rubbed and a little worn and faded. SCARCE. (Book ref. 007713)
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1944. pp xvi, 304, endpapers lightly foxed and tiny neat signature on the front one, fore-edge of a few pages lightly bruised, page 301/302 of the index has a tear which has been neatly repaired), extensive interesting lightly pencilled notes on the rear endpaper, otherwise exceptionally clean internally, blue cloth very bright, in a very clean dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. (Book ref. 007070)
London: Dennis Dobson, 1949. First edition Small slim 8vo, pp 134, black cloth a bit rubbed and slightly worn, an ex-Boots library copy with shield on front cover, traces of a label on the rear endpaper but no other markings, and very clean internally. SCARCE. Postage will be much reduced within the UK. [Essays by Austin Warren, Marshall McLuhan, Harold Whitehall, Josephine Miles, Robert Lowell and Arthur Mizener. A publisher's note on the contents page points out that F.R. Leavis' essay had to be withdrawn due to copyright difficulties.] (Book ref. 006765)
Oxford University Press, 1946. Third impression. Two plates, pp x, 169, very clean internally, brown cloth showing the very faintest signs of wear, in a slightly worn and marked dustwrapper.[Gerard Manley Hopkins was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse. Much of Hopkins's historical importance has to do with the changes he brought to the form of poetry, which ran contrary to conventional ideas of metre. Prior to Hopkins, most Middle English and Modern English poetry was based on a rhythmic structure inherited from the Norman side of English literary heritage. This structure is based on repeating groups of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition. Hopkins called this structure "running rhythm", and though he wrote some of his early verse in running rhythm he became fascinated with the older rhythmic structure of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, of which Beowulf is the most famous example. Hopkins called his own rhythmic structure sprung rhythm. Sprung rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot. It is similar to the "rolling stresses" of Robinson Jeffers, another poet who rejected conventional metre. Hopkins saw sprung rhythm as a way to escape the constraints of running rhythm, which he said inevitably pushed poetry written in it to become "same and tame." In this way, Hopkins can be seen as anticipating much of free verse. His work has no great affinity with either of the contemporary Pre-Raphaelite and neo-romanticism schools, although he does share their descriptive love of nature and he is often seen as a precursor to modernist poetry or as a bridge between the two poetic eras. The language of Hopkins’s poems is often striking. His imagery can be simple, as in Heaven-Haven, where the comparison is between a nun entering a convent and a ship entering a harbour out of a storm. It can be splendidly metaphysical and intricate, as it is in As Kingfishers Catch Fire, where he leaps from one image to another to show how each thing expresses its own uniqueness, and how divinity reflects itself through all of them. He uses many archaic and dialect words, but also coins new words. One example of this is twindles, which seems from its context in Inversnaid to mean a combination of twines and dwindles. He often creates compound adjectives, sometimes with a hyphen (such as dapple-dawn-drawn falcon) but often without, as in rolling level underneath him steady air. This concentrates his images, communicating the instress of the poet’s perceptions of an inscape to his reader. Hopkins took time to learn Old English, which became a major influence on his writing. Hopkins held the language in such high regard that in an 1882 letter to Robert Bridges, Hopkins opines that Old English is "a vastly superior thing to what we have now". Added richness comes from Hopkins’s extensive use of alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia and rhyme, both at the end of lines and internally. Hopkins was influenced by the Welsh language that he acquired while studying theology at St Beuno's College near St Asaph. The poetic forms of Welsh literature and particularly cynghanedd with its emphasis on repeating sounds accorded with his own style and became a prominent feature of his work. This reliance on similar sounding words with close or differing senses mean that his poems are best understood if read aloud. An important element in his work is Hopkins's own concept of "inscape" which was derived, in part, from the medieval theologian Duns Scotus. The exact detail of "inscape" is uncertain and probably known to Hopkins alone but it has (Book ref. 006738)
London: James Nichol, 1858. Published by James Nichol, Edinburgh, 1858. Large 8vo, pp xxiv, 281, slightly age-toned, some light pencilled lines in some margins, but a much cleaner and tighter copy than normal, neat signature and date on front endpaper, attractive original blind-stamped cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, upper and lower cover a little marked , slightly rubbed at the corners, the head and tail of the spine a little worn and frayed. (Book ref. 006732)
Gringley-on-the-Hill, Doncaster: Brynmill Press, 1987. 0907839320 Slim 8vo, pp 44, paperback, slightlly worn. [ Important discussion of the incompatibility of empiricism and liturgy ]. Postage will be much reduced. (Book ref. 006727)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937. First edition. pp 275, a little light foxing, marginal mark to pages 148/149, otherwise very clean and tight, red cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded and marked and a little bruised at the head. A good sound pleasing copy. [The imaginative use of language, imagination lyric and morality, visionary dreariness, Adam's dream, the failure of the ballad-makers, poetry dogma and the mystical.] (Book ref. 006321)
London: Constable & Company, 1949. Second edition reprinted 1949. pp x, 309, very slight foxing to the fore-edge otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth very clean, in a dustwrapper which is a little worn chipped and frayed, but not price-clipped. [The Tennyson legend, Somersby, Cambridge, the 1830 and 1832 volumes, the ten years' silence, Farringford, Aldworth, Tennyson and his age, love politics and religion, lyrical inspiration.[ (Book ref. 006319)
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1855. Large 8vo, pp x, 254, edges slightly unevenly trimmed, a little age-toning and slight marking but overall a much better than average condition internally for a book of this age and very tight. Bookplate of William Abercrombie. Green blind-stamped embossed cloth, very slightly worn, spine faded and slightly frayed at the head. An attractive copy. (Book ref. 006316)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1940. Small 8vo, pp viii, 191, a bright clean copy in a dustwrapper which is showing only very slight signs of wear. [Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, David Lindsay, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Burns, Scottish ballads etc.] (Book ref. 006166)
New York: Henry Holt, 1990. Illustrated by Rand, Ted. 0805012087 Illustrated, large slim 8vo, pp (32), dustwrapper, good copy. (Book ref. 001723)
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933. Large 8vo, pp 325, orange-brown cloth, very slightly marked, slightly faded, very slightly worn. (Book ref. 005590)
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1961. Slim 8vo, pp 50, boards slightly bowed and slightly marked, otherwise a sound copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper with a few closed tears. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter]. (Book ref. 005573)
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1947. 16 plates, small 8vo, pp xxxii, 256, cloth very slightly worn, otherwise a good sound copy in a chipped and slightly worn dustwrapper. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his signature on the front endpaper]. (Book ref. 005569)
Winchester College Printing Society, 1979. Illustrated by Atkinson-Willes, Richard & Southgate, Richard. Limited edition of 900 copies (this being number 625). Small, tall quarto, pp (56), title-page printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations, hessian cloth with leather labels on spine and upper cover, small bookplate of John Sparrow on front endpaper. (Book ref. 005361)
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 12 col plates by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, large thick 8vo, pp xvi, 459, slight foxing, signature and date on front endpaper, blue cloth slightly worn, spine a little worn, frayed at the base. n.d. (1930 ?) (Book ref. 005072)
Salisbury & London: R.R. Edwards & Simpkin Marshall, 1903. 2 volumes, small 8vo, pp 372, a few decorative headpieces, a frontispiece to the second volume, original printed boards, very slightly worn, the first volume with a slight stain on the upper cover, but otherwise a very clean set. (Book ref. 004995)