From Summer 1978 Explore This Issue on Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray By W. Kruck From the Summer 1978 Issue ← on Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia by Michael P. Johnson → on Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77 by Laurence Lieberman; Escape from the Self: A Study in Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics by Karl Malkoff; & Modern American Lyric: Lowell, Berryman, Creeley, and Plath by Arthur Oberg