THE LIBERTIES
OF WIT
Humanism, Criticism,
and the Civic Mind
by ROBERT E. LANE
A political scientist challenges
the methods of thought en–
couraged in the study of the
liberal arts, using the theory
and practice of literary critic–
ism as an example. Exploring
the ideas of the major literary
critics, Robert E. Lane argues
that certain approaches to
knowledge and ways of think–
ing and writing tend sys–
tematically to undercut the
citizen's capacity to under–
stand the social and political
world that confronts him on
every hand.
$3.75
BACCHYLIDES:
COMPLETE POEMS
translated by Robert Fagles
with a Foreword by Sir Mau–
rice Bowra
The first contemporary and
complete translation. "Elegant,
forceful, modern as well as
correct."-W. K. Wimsatt.
$3.75
Yale University Press
New Haven and London
CONTRIBUTORS
DONALD DAVIE's New and Se–
lected Poems has been brought out
by Wesleyan University Press.
LENORE G. MARSHALL is the au–
thor of several books of poetry.
She is also a novelist whose most
recent book, The Hill Is Level, was
published by Random House.
BERNARD MALAMUD's latest nov–
el, A New Life, published by Farrar,
Straus and Cudahy, is reviewed in
this issue. He is now teaching at
Bennington College.
ROBERT GOLDWATER, director
of the Museum of Primitive Art,
teaches the history of modern art
at New York University's Institute
of Fine Arts.
FRANK KERMODE, the well known
English critic, teaches at the Uni–
versity of Manchester. He has just
published a book of essays in Eng–
land called Romantic Image.
MARTIN GREENBERG is prepar–
ing a critical study of Kafka's works.
