A September 1895 article on Nora Hopper in The Bookman noted that even the "most Irish of Irish readers" found a reflection of the "essential spirit of their country" in her first book Ballads in Prose (1894). Few readers of any nationality today know her work, however, except in connection with her early champion, William Butler Yeats, or her better-known contemporary, Katharine Tynan. Nonetheless, during her lifetime Hopper was a popular writer who composed many poems for such periodicals as Longman's, Macmillan's, and The Yellow Book that were collected in several volumes. At least in part because of Yeats's interest in her early poetry, nearly all scholars of the period in Irish literature known variously as the Irish Literary Movement, the Celtic Twilight, the Irish Literary Renaissance, or the Celtic Revival devote at least a few paragraphs to her contributions. Because she wrote so copiously for the periodical press, Hopper...