From Summer 1983 Explore This Issue on The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers by Lawrence Lipking By Herbert J. Levine From the Summer 1983 Issue ← Pilgrimage to Auden Country (on Early Auden by Edward Mendelson; & W. H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter) → on Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition by Ladell Payne