Gerard Manley Hopkins passed away in 1889, and yet the first substantial publication of his poetry was not until nearly 30 years after his death, in 1918. Many of his poems were published within The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, now first published. Edited with notes by Robert Bridges. What caused this major gap in time between when his work was able to capture an audience? Robert Bridges, a friend of Hopkins and also the poet laureate who published his work, is the main reason why this release took so long. He may have thought that the Victorian public was not ready for the uniqueness of Hopkins’s work. He certainly was outspoken about his frustrations with Hopkins’s poetic techniques in his concluding notes in the volume. Although he was the agent that gave Hopkins’s work a wider audience, his hesitations about it are obvious. The 30-year gap reveals Bridges’s uncertainty and misunderstanding surrounding Hopkins’s intention to convey feeling through the rhythm, structure, and rhyme of his poetry. This gap also displays the power the Hopkins's works hold, for although this collection was published well after his lifetime, his work continues to impact and shape readers and poets to this day.