I have only one clue to offer about what kind of policies Arne Duncan, who has been nominated as the secretary of education for President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet, might favor for English-language ...

DUNCAN Forbes (1798-1868) was a Scottish scholar of oriental languages and literature. Though Forbes penned a number of works on Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Bengali, his better known books are ...

Robert Duncan saw in H.D.’s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.” Robert Duncan did not know anything about the Modernist poet H.D. in the mid-1930s, when as a ...