Search Results: Gerard Manley Hopkins by The Kenyon Critics

New Directions, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 144 pages, with bibliography and index. Eight essays, assembled for the centenary of Hopkins's birth, in a project initiated by The Kenyon Review's editor John Crowe Ransom and edited by Cleanth Brooks. The Makers of Modern Literature series. Contributions from Robert Lowell, Marshall McLuhan, Josephine Miles and others. 12mo (4-3/4" x 7-1/4"), gray cloth with black lettering on heavily sunned (to brown) spine, boards soiled, wear to crown and heel, edges and end papers age-toned, rusty paperclip stain to ToC and facing page. Name of former owner Ann Evans (Berthoff) written on ffep along with pencil price notation, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 55 pages and rfep. Laid-in clipping from the TLS, Dec. 22-29, 2006 of an article on GMH by Simon Humphries.

New Directions, 1945 DJ has mild rubbing. Book and Jacket have no tears, stains, or writing and the price is intact.

New Directions Books, 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Very good+. New Directions Books, c1945. 144pp., index, frontis. photograph. sm. 8vo. Small scuffs on first page, else fine hardcover in Very Good+ d/j with minor rubbing on corner tip folds, edges of spine panel.

Norfolk, CT:New Directions Books, (1945). hard cover. Very Good/Fair. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/02/0_img_6829.jpg. Norfolk, CT:New Directions Books. (1945). 144pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Gray boards lightly soiled and shelfworn along edges with edge points gently worn. Internally a previous owners name and date is inked to first free end-page, with some margin notes penciled to page 11, but otherwise pages clean. The dust jacket is in fair condition, still in one piece, but soiled and quite worn with chips and tears to edges and folds. * "One of America's most distinguished literary magazines, The Kenyon Review, celebrated the centenary of the birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins by commissioning a group of leading critics to write essays on different aspects of his work. These essays are here collected in book form, supplemented by a biographical sketch which rounds out the picture of Hopkins as a poet."...dj

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 144pp. Edges lightly toned, else fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket, else bright and clean. Part of The Makers of Modern Literature.