Vol. 2 No. 7 · 17 April 1980
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Vol. 2 No. 7 · 17 April 1980
William Empson
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates. Routledge, 224 pp., £7.75, November 1979, 9780710003201
Letters
D.D. Raphael, E.M. Valk, Yorick Wilks, Thomas Blaikie, George Watson, Anthony Dickins, Robin Maconie, Hans Keller, J.D. MacShane, Brigid Brophy
Douglas Dunn
Poem: ‘The Gallery’
C.H. Roberts
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels. Weidenfeld, 182 pp., £7.95, March 1980, 0 297 77709 2
Nicholas Humphrey
The Spiritual Nature of Man by Alister Hardy. Oxford, 162 pp., £6.95, December 1979, 0 19 824618 8
Gabriel Josipovici
Chaucer’s Knight: Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary by Terry Jones. Weidenfeld, 319 pp., £8.95, January 1980, 0 297 77566 9 Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination by David Aers. Routledge, 236 pp., £9.75, January 1980, 9780710003515 The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duc de Berry by Marcel Thomas. Chatto, 120 pp., £12.50, January 1980, 0 7011 2471 7
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Sidgwick, 522 pp., £6.95, December 1979, 0 283 98587 9
Alasdair MacIntyre
Perception and Identity: Essays presented to A.J. Ayer with his replies to them edited by G.E. MacDonald. Macmillan, 358 pp., £15, December 1979, 0 333 27182 3 Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G.E.M. Anscombe edited by Cora Diamond and Jenny Teichmann. Harvester, 205 pp., £16.95, December 1979, 0 85527 985 0
John McDowell
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts by John Searle. Cambridge, 187 pp., £8.50, December 1979, 0 521 22901 4
A.C. Gimson
The Sound Shape of Language by Roman Jakobson and Linda Waugh. Harvester, 308 pp., £13.50, September 1979, 0 85527 926 5
Karl Miller
W.H. Auden: The Life of a Poet by Charles Osborne. Eyre Methuen, 336 pp., £7.95, March 1980, 0 413 39670 3
Geoffrey Best
The Ethics of War by Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill. Duckworth, 332 pp., £18, October 1979, 0 7156 1354 5
Mary McCarthy
Ideas and the Novel: Dostoevsky’s ‘The Possessed’
Eric Stokes
Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics by Kenneth Ballhatchet. Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £9.50, January 1980, 0 297 77646 0 Queen Victoria’s Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-1898 by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand. Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £9.95, February 1980, 0 297 77656 8
Peter Clarke
The Optimists: Themes and Personalities in Victorian Liberalism by Ian Bradley. Faber, 301 pp., £12.50, January 1980, 0 571 11495 4
Michael Irwin
The Missing Years by Walter Laqueur. Weidenfeld, 281 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 297 77707 6 Jack be nimble by Nigel Williams. Secker, 213 pp., £5.50, March 1980, 0 436 57155 2 Identity Papers by Anthony Cronin. Co-op Books, 194 pp., £4.50, February 1980, 0 905441 23 0 Narrow Rooms by James Purdy. Black Sheep Books, 185 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 906538 60 2 Six Moral Tales by Eric Rohmer, translated by Sabine d’Estrée. Lorrimer, 252 pp., £4.95, February 1980, 0 85647 075 9
Angela Carter
The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley. Virago, 192 pp., £2.50, March 1980, 0 86068 127 0 Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley. Virago, 208 pp., £1.95, May 1979, 0 86068 108 4
Polly Toynbee
Mother and Son by Jeremy Seabrook. Gollancz, 189 pp., £6.95, October 1979, 9780575026889
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