A new feature on poetry

Abstract

In this issue we are introducing a new feature. This is a lengthy article on Maltese poetry by the Rev. Peter Serracino Inglott, who has been recently appointed Head of the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts. We wish the new Professor and his Department good luck which, academically, means success in the pursuit of intellectual development guided by the light of truly logical reasoning and when too many philosophies disagree and cancel one another, by Common Sense. This is a good opportunity both for congrarulating the new professor and for introducing a new feature written by him, a scholar's study in our home language. Now that Maltese is the official language of the University together with the English Language we would be failing in our duty if we refused to publish a scholarly article in Maltese on the assumption than our language, like so many other small peoples' languages, has a limited circulation.