Gerard Manley hopkins

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  1. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    hello i have found a Gerard Manley hopkins book with a strange poem in it any thought on this poem
     

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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Thoughts...like what ?

    Some guy wrote a poem inside about escaping the sight of others sufferings...

    What more is there?
     
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  3. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    hoping for a famous poet it was done in 1899
     
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  4. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    what bothers me is the poem is done in blue ink and the signed in black do you think it could be a friend and adviser to gerard
     
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  5. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Lloyd - how did you find that the poem was written in 1899. I tried Googling some of the lines and got no where. Who wrote it?
     
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  6. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Isn't that written in ballpoint pen?
     
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  7. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    sometimes what is written on the inside of a book is worth more than the book itself
     
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  8. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

  9. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    blue and black fountain ink under magnification
    the date is may 20/99 and i have had the book since before 1999
     
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  10. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    ya your right ,it would have been done after 1960
     
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  11. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    the book itself is trash was hoping for a good poet lol oh well, would have been easier if it was in ballpoint .not one indentation not even on the other side of the page leads me to beleive they used a fountain pen and the could have i had one in the 60s
     
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  12. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I wish I could have found the lines on Google for you, but no go. (Frankly, it's not even that good a poem IMHO, but that's neither here nor there.)
     
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  13. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    I tried Googling some of the lines and got no where also, don't know who wrote it was hoping you /s would
     
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  14. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    ya prob. unpublished author . i like finding things like this in books , a bit of a mystery .
     
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  15. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    maybe trying to mimic gerard lol but failed
     
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  16. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I was thinking the same, but it's so darned "dark."
     
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  17. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    i will scan it. , maybe, felt tip pen . just seemed older i guess
     

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  18. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I didn't mean dark color, I meant dark emotion.
     
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  19. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

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  20. lloyd249

    lloyd249 it's not hoarding if it's valuable

    yes d15 but the poem was what i found interesting in finding out about. and it's nothing anyone recognises so it's a bust . i could be off a year or 2 from when i bought it and it might just be a new (very dark ) poet
     
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