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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Carr reported one edition of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), a Jesuit priest and poet, in his History of the QTP (1987). Two impressions have been seen, the second published in May 1988, after the History had been published. Hopkins died at St. Stephen's Green in Dublin, of typhoid, aged 46 years.

The editor of the title is Nina Steane (1932-1990), named inside both impressions, and the cover design is signed Nina Steane, 1982. In the History of the QTP Carr credits Nina Carroll, which was her maiden name. Nina Steane was a poet whose husband, John Steane, was a head teacher in Kettering. She died in 1990 aged 57y and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford with her son Peter, who also died in 1990, aged 27y.

(Last updated on 16/2/2020)

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Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)

Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)

Content: Short biography. Poems: Fair havens - the nunnery; I must hunt down the prize...; history; Not kind! to freeze me with forecast...; To his watch; more history; 4 I am soft sift...; 5 I kiss my hand...; more history; The windhover: to Christ our lord; God's grandeur; The starlight night; Quotation; Spring; Pied beauty;Hurrahing in harvest; Quotation from letter to Bridges; The loss of the Eurydice; more history; Henry Purcell; Spring and Fall; more history; No worst, there is none...; Thou art indeed just...; more history; O feel-of-primrose hands...; Spring; The habit of perfection; portrait; manuscript of Harry Ploughman.

Notes: This book mixes biographical details, poems and text from letters to Robert Bridges, who published Hopkin's poems posthumously. Carr stated in his History of the QTP that a book on the poems of Bridges was in preparation. It is not known to have been published.

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Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)

Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)

Content: Short biography. Poems: Fair havens - the nunnery; I must hunt down the prize...; more history; Not kind! to freeze me with forecast...; To his watch; more history; 4 I am soft sift...; 5 I kiss my hand...; more history; The windhover: to Christ our lord; God's grandeur; The starlight night; Quotation; Spring; Pied beauty;Hurrahing in harvest; Quotation from letter to Bridges; The loss of the Eurydice; more history; Henry Purcell; Spring and Fall; more history; No worst, there is none...; Thou art indeed just...; more history; O feel-of-primrose hands...; Spring; The habit of perfection; portrait; manuscript of Harry Ploughman.

Notes: This impression is dated inside the rear cover, May 1988. It is numbered 85; six other small books have the same number: Bunyan, Lear, Milton, Vaughan, The Devil's Dictionary and The Dictionary of Parsons.

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