THE MAN COMING TOWARDS You—Oscar Williams—Oxford ($2). One day in 1936 a smart, middleaged, successful advertising-man, who had turned his hand to conducting publicity campaigns for Florida ...

Recommended by: Grace Schulman As a 19th-century priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote devotional poetry, desiring fervently to be close to God while also contemplating the complexities of piety ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year.