HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY. POEMS. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges. 2 portraits, 2 double-page facsimiles. 8vo, original linen-backed

boards, printed spine label; 1/2 morocco slipcase. A FINE COPY. London: Humphrey Milford, (1918) FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. "Hopkins's poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his "dark night of the soul" would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance -- like Rimbaud's in France --had they but known of him." --Connolly, The Modern Movement 33.