SOURCE: “New Directions in Poetry: The Work of Louis Simpson,” in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazer, University of Michigan Press, 1988, pp. 63–65.
In the following review, originally published in 1964, Locke addresses Simpson's change of style and focus in At the End of the Open Road.
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