Reynolds Price’s “Commencing”
Dumas Malone’s “The Scholar’s Way: Then and Now”
Howard Nemerov’s “Poetry and History”
Cleanth Brooks’s “Faulkner’s Criticism of Modern America”
Poetry by Hayden Carruth, Donald Hall, Robert Penn Warren, and Peter Taylor
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) was a poet, critic, novelist, teacher, and co-founder of the Southern Review. He was appointed the nation’s first Poet Laureate in 1986.