GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (Makers of Modern Literature Series)

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