Loose Canons
Edward Mendelson, 23 June 1988
History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures 1987
by Frank Kermode.
Oxford, 160 pp., £15, June 1988,0 19 812381 7 Show More
by Frank Kermode.
Oxford, 160 pp., £15, June 1988,
British Writers of the Thirties
by Valentine Cunningham.
Oxford, 530 pp., £30, February 1988,0 19 212267 3 Show More
by Valentine Cunningham.
Oxford, 530 pp., £30, February 1988,
“... unruly age. But he prefers even more the sacrificial transgressions of forbidden love. He sees in Christopher Caudwell’s conversion to Communism a ‘loving surrender to necessity’ that could only have occurred through a ‘psychic revolution in the lover’. Caudwell’s commitment to the proletariat was complete. The politics of less committed writers ... ”