From Spring 1980 Explore This Issue An End to Criticism? (on The Republic Of Letters: A History of Postwar American Literary Opinion by Grant Webster) By René Wellek From the Spring 1980 Issue ← Because We Are Not Taken Seriously → Scrawny Cries, Barbaric Yawps (on The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic by James E. Miller Jr.; & Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America by R. A. Yoder)