While he’s best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (which has a staggering 150 million copies in print worldwide), J. R. R. Tolkien was… Read more »

A draft of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Binsey Poplars”—the last major Hopkins manuscript known to be in private hands—has been bought by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford… Read more »