In volume eight of The Poets and Poetry of the Century (1891) the editor, Alfred Henry Miles, included the work of one unknown poet and one known poet. The unknown poet was Gerard Manley Hopkins, who had died in 1889 and whose poetry appeared in print for the first time in this collection; the known poet was Emily Hickey, who had published three books of verse. Inclusion in the anthology was the high point of Hickey's career; Hopkins's reputation did not grow until after 1918, when his friend Robert Bridges published The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Hopkins now occupies an exalted position in Victorian and modern poetry, but Hickey has largely been forgotten. Nevertheless, the two poets shared more than the initial letter of their surnames. Hickey was born in Ireland and lived her adult life in England; Hopkins was born in England and spent his last years in Dublin...