NMLP P-038485 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins (ed. Robert Bridges) · Humphrey Milford (Oxford University Press), London · 1918
UK only, and posthumous — the census claim is correct that this appeared in 1918, twenty-nine years after Hopkins's death in 1889 (he died 8 June 1889), with most of the poems printed here for the first time. No separate American first edition of this text was found in the sources consulted; treat any US imprint as later. First-thus trap: the second edition (Humphrey Milford / Oxford, 1930), with a critical introduction and notes by Charles Williams, adds sixteen poems and is the far more commonly encountered book — it is an expanded second edition, not the first. The census assertion that there was "no US edition until 1931" could not be corroborated and is therefore not repeated here.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038485 for "Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (ed. Robert Bridges) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038485, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).