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The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Editor’s Notes

Editorial Comment: The Inorganic Muses

By John Crowe Ransom

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Fiction

Mr. Haszka

By Jean Garrigue

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Nonfiction

Eliot’s Quartets

By F. O. Matthiessen

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François Mauriac

By Wallace Fowlie

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Thought and Sensibility

By Martin Lebowitz

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Pure and Impure Poetry

By Robert Penn Warren

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Maxwell Anderson: A Criticism

By John S. Rodell

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Drama

The Key

By Ramon J. Sender

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Poetry

Aetat 50

By Mark Van Doren

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How We Shine

By Mark Van Doren

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April, 1942

By Mark Van Doren

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Jubilo

By Allen Tate

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More Sonnets at Christmas

By Allen Tate

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Book Reviews

On Symbolism

By Eliseo Vivas

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A French Aesthetic

By Walter Pach

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Péguy Pared Down

By Robert C. Stephenson

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Gibbs and the Age of Power

By Philip Blair Rice

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Gallic American

By Robie Macauley

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Psychopathic like Charlie

By Charles Neider

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Good Neighbor Poets

By Lloyd Mallan

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