Spring 1998 (Volume LI, No. 1) The 50th Anniversary Issue George Washington, An Amateur’s View by Joseph Epstein From the Outside In: A History of American Autobiography by Susan Balée Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80 by Harold Fromm Learning from Robert Fitzgerald by Dana Gioia Hat Check Noir by Jocelyn Bartkevicius An Unsheltered Island by Gary Krist The Half-Acre of Millet; In My Grandmother’s Natural Voice: The Cape Cod Blues; Comrade Women—; Burial Rites by Hayden Carruth My Dead Lover; Unsaid by Dana Gioia The Abacus of Years; Finitude; Robbie and I Discover Painting by Emily Grosholz NEAR Travels Far to Find Eros; Snow; The Ice Child by John Haines Long-Distance Vision by Anthony Hecht Cycle; Epistle I; Epistle II by Mark Jarman Skinnydipping with William Wordsworth by Maxine Kumin After; There Is; The Moon Through the Trees; My Eastern Friend by Robert McDowell In Transit; Acrostic from Aegina; Untitled by David Mason Nero in Love; Two Ways; A Shearling Coat; Foursome; The Night-Watchman’s Daughter; State of the Art; A Walk with Bash_ by Louis Simpson The Vineyard Above the Sea; Fonte Gaia; July on the High Plain by Charles Tomlinson Crisis in the American Theatre by Richard Hornby American Art: The Center and the Edge by John Loughery Doing More Work than Most Ten Men by Karen Wilkin Dangerous Liaisons, or Sex, Lies and Burlesque by Bert Cardullo Classical Music and the Tourist Factor by Josiah Fisk Early Music in Boston by Robert S. Clark Urban Anthropology by Marcia B. Siegel Classic Chandler by William H. Pritchard Double Talk, Double Dutch, Dutch Chocolate by Thomas M. Disch Looking Backward by Dean Flower Fwame Wesistant Suits by R. S. Gwynn Subdividing Parnassus by David Mason The Game of Taste by Bruce Bawer