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

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October 1, 1944

Monument Not Quite Needed

By Austin Warren

It is difficult to be fair to Miss Ruggles’ centennial life of Hopkins.1 By conventional literary and commercial standards, it is not only “needed” but adequate and creditable. It supplies […]

October 1, 1944

Victorian Hopkins

By Arthur Mizener

The emphasis on the oddness and modernness of Hopkins’ poetry has diminished considerably of late. This shift began, perhaps, with Mr. Abbott’s Introductions to the Letters; it is marked in […]