Voice of America Forum Lectures

Foreword Many of our Forum series have been concerned with what might, in an academic sense, be called "disciplines." Certainly poetry is not in this sense a "discipline," in fact, it seems to resist definition and limitation. For that reason we ought perhaps to speak, not so much of what poetry...

PrefaceThis volume would seem to need only a small preface, since the last chapter, that contributed by the editor, has been designed as an overview of the present state of language science in the United States and, at least in part, elsewhere. Yet it can be added here that the state of our science...