Hopkins, David, review of W. K. Thomas, The Crafting of 'Absalom and Achitophel': Dryden's 'Pen for a Party', in Literature and Its Audience, II, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 11.1 (1981)), pp. 260–62, doi:10.2307/3506301

Hopkins, David, review of Kirsti Simonsuuri, Homer's Original Genius: Eighteenth-Century Notions of the Early Greek Epic (1688-1798), in Modern Language Review, 76.3 (1981), pp. 650–51, doi:10.2307/3727403

Hopkins, David, review of David Trotter, The Poetry of Abraham Cowley, in Heroes and the Heroic, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 12.1 (1982)), pp. 269–71, doi:10.2307/3507440

Hopkins, David, review of John O. Hayden, Polestar of the Ancients: The Aristotelian Tradition in Classical and English Literary Criticism, in Modern Language Review, 77.3 (1982), pp. 690–91, doi:10.2307/3728078

Hopkins, David, ‘Nature's Laws and Man's: The Story of Cinyras and Myrrha in Ovid and Dryden’, in Modern Language Review, 80.4 (1985), pp. 786–801, doi:10.2307/3728955

Hopkins, David, review of Richard Stoneman, Daphne into Laurel: Translations of Classical Poetry from Chaucer to the Present, in Modern Language Review, 81.4 (1986), pp. 972–73, doi:10.2307/3729620

Hopkins, David, review of Bruce King, Seventeenth-Century English Literature, in British Poetry since 1945, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 17.1 (1987)), pp. 274–75, doi:10.2307/3507692