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Vol. 2 No. 21 · 6 November 1980
Christopher Hill
The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a 16th-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi. Routledge, 177 pp., £7.95, October 1980, 0 7100 0591 1
Letters
Thomas Hinde, Christopher Ricks, Lawrence Airey, John Bayley, Michael Dummett, Hans Keller
Frank Kermode
Tennyson: The Unqulet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin. Oxford/Faber, 656 pp., £12.95, October 1980, 0 19 812072 9 Thro’ the Vision of the Night: A Study of Source, Evolution and Structure in Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’ by J.M. Gray. Edinburgh, 179 pp., £10, August 1980, 0 85224 382 0
D.J. Enright
Poem: ‘Burden’
Brigid Brophy
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens and Leon Garfield. Deutsch, 327 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 0 233 97257 9
Robert Taubman
Rites of Passage by William Golding. Faber, 278 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 571 11639 6
David Lodge
Ways of Escape by Graham Greene. Bodley Head, 309 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 370 30356 3
Anthony Holden
The United States in the 1980s edited by Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka. Croom Helm, 868 pp., £14.95, August 1980, 0 8179 7281 1
Alan Coren
Nixon: A Study in Extremes of Fortune by Lord Longford. Weidenfeld, 205 pp., £8.95, October 1980, 0 297 77708 4
Alasdair MacIntyre
Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills. Athlone, 398 pp., £12.50, September 1980, 0 485 11201 9
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Authority by Richard Sennett. Secker, 206 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 436 44675 8
Neal Ascherson
The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton. Macmillan, 205 pp., £12, 0 333 37635 8 Counting Our Blessings by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Secker, 348 pp., £7.95, September 1980, 9780436294013 Peregrinations by Peregrine Worsthorne. Weidenfeld, 277 pp., £9.95, October 1980, 0 297 77807 2
Hugo Williams
States of Desire: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White. Deutsch, 336 pp., £5.95, August 1980, 9780233973012
Fred Halliday
Arabia, the Gulf and the West by J.B. Kelly. Weidenfeld, 530 pp., £15, May 1980, 0 297 77759 9
Claude Rawson
The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse by Geoffrey Grigson. Oxford, 454 pp., £8.50, September 1980, 0 19 214110 4
Graham Hough
The Sum of Things by Olivia Manning. Weidenfeld, 203 pp., £5.95, September 1980, 0 297 77816 1 The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin. Cape, 155 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 224 01820 5 The Sooting Party by Isabel Colegate. Hamish Hamilton, 181 pp., £5.95, September 1980, 0 241 10473 4 An Ancient Castle by Robert Graves. Owen, 69 pp., £3.95, October 1980, 0 7206 0567 9
Roy Harris
Studies in English Linguistics for Randolph Quirk edited by Sidney Greenbaum and Jan Svartvik. Longman, 304 pp., £18, September 1980, 0 582 55079 3
Peter Burke
Politics in Renaissance Venice by Robert Finlay. Benn, 336 pp., £13.95, June 1980, 0 510 00085 1
Brenda Maddox
Garbo by Alexander Walker. Weidenfeld, 191 pp., £10, September 1980, 0 297 77799 8
Gabriele Annan
Maria: Beyond the Callas Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos. Weidenfeld, 329 pp., £8.95, October 1980, 0 297 77544 8
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