Author: Claude Colleer Abbott
Title: The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1955. Cloth. A second revised edition of this collection of selected letters from the correspondence between Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon. The second revised impression stated of the first published in 1935. Gerard Manley Hopkins was a poet and Jesuit priest, mostly acclaimed for his manipulation of prosody as well as his ability to praise God through a vivid use of imagery and nature. His fame established him as a leading Victorian poet only posthumously. In this volume, his letters to his old friend Bridges and with Dixon, with whom he corresponded with much eloquence and regularity. He shares with them thoughts about his poems, theories about others' work or general principles of literary criticism, about life, religion, art, and much more. With unclipped dustwrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally very smart with minor shelfwear and minor bumping to tail of spine. Dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent, with minor shelfwear only. Spine is slightly sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Minor spotting to fore edge, only affecting the occasional gutter. With frontispiece of Gerard Manley Hopkins and an illustration of Richard Watson Dixon. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Fine.

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