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,
“... year that one begins to feel he has undermined Bellow’s claim to his own royalties. C.W.E. Bigsby also sounds mechanical when he quarrels with Christopher Lasch over narcissism: ought it to be diagnosed as the vice of the Seventies, since Joe Orton’s work proves that it was endemic in the Sixties? Here literature illuminates sociology, rather than ... ”
