Moments
Marilyn Butler, 2 September 1982
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. I: Medieval Literature Part One: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition, Vol. II: The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. III: From Donne to Marvell, Vol. IV: From Dryden to Johnson
edited by Boris Ford.
Penguin, 647 pp., £2.95, March 1982,0 14 022264 2 Show More
edited by Boris Ford.
Penguin, 647 pp., £2.95, March 1982,
Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background
by J.A. Burrow.
Oxford, 148 pp., £9.95, May 1982,0 19 289122 7 Show More
by J.A. Burrow.
Oxford, 148 pp., £9.95, May 1982,
Contemporary Writers Series: Saul Bellow, Joe Orton, John Fowles, Kurt Vonnegut, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Pynchon
by Malcolm Bradbury, C.W.E. Bigsby, Peter Conradi, Jerome Klinkowitz and Blake Morrison.
Methuen, 110 pp., £1.95, May 1982,0 416 31650 6 Show More
by Malcolm Bradbury, C.W.E. Bigsby, Peter Conradi, Jerome Klinkowitz and Blake Morrison.
Methuen, 110 pp., £1.95, May 1982,
“... notions of an upper-class, leisured community of ideal readers. To do well, you needed to have read a great deal; at those British universities still working this old-style English (which must be more than half of them), students from unlettered backgrounds are at a strong disadvantage. The great selling-point in Leavis’s system was that, on the novel in ... ”