Epigraph
Thus it happens that rhetoric is an offshoot
of dialectic and also of ethical studies.
—Aristotle, Rhetoric
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments with thanks are due the following: Charles Scribner’s Sons for the passage from Allen Tate’s “The Subway,” from Poems 1922-1947; Karl Shapiro and Random House, Inc., for the passage from Essay on Rime; and the Viking Press, Inc., for the passage from Sherwood Anderson’s A Story Teller’s Story.