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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

Was Shakespeare a Philosopher?

By J. C. R.

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The Teaching of Poetry

By J. C. R.

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Nonfiction

The Sorrows of Thomas Wolfe

By John Peale Bishop

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A Paris Letter

By Ford Madox Ford

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The Two Audens

By Delmore Schwartz

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The Advent of American Music

By Paul Rosenfeld

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Franz Kafka: The Hero as Lonely Man

By Philip Rahv

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Poetry

The Cities’ Summer Death

By R. T. S. Lowell

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The Dandelion Girls

By R. T. S. Lowell

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The Winter’s Tale

By Randall Jarrell

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Book Reviews

Gallic Pageant

By Haakon M. Chevalier

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Private and Public Verse

By C. A. Millspaugh

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The Shattered Door

By Howard Baker

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Painter of the Half-World

By Sheldon Cheney

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Mature Intelligence of an Artist

By R. P. Blackmur

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Farrell and Steinbeck

By Herbert J. Muller

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Russell’s Theory of History

By Vernon Venable

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Poetry of Feeling

By Yvor Winters

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Genius Limited and Yearning

By B. H. Haggin

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Twenty-Five Directions

By Philip Blair Rice

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