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Vol. 3 No. 15 · 20 August 1981
Seamus Heaney
Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam
Letters
Stephen Logan, Gerry Webster, Octave Mannoni, Henri Tajfel, Hannah Barber, Antoinette Burton, R.A. Delgado, Alan Hurst, J.E.R. Little
Robert Blake
The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. Vol. 1: The 19th Century by Stephen Koss. Hamish Hamilton, 455 pp., £20, May 1981, 0 241 10561 7
Peter Burke
The Past and the Present by Lawrence Stone. Routledge, 274 pp., £8.75, June 1981, 0 7100 0628 4
Howard Erskine-Hill
Some Intellectual Consequences of the English Revolution by Christopher Hill. Weidenfeld, 100 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 297 77780 7 The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill. Nelson, 296 pp., £5.95, September 1980, 0 17 712002 9
Norman Hampson
The French Revolution and the Poor by Alan Forrest. Blackwell, 198 pp., £12.50, May 1981, 0 631 10371 6
Olwen Hufton
Origins of the French Revolution by William Doyle. Oxford, 247 pp., £12.50, January 1981, 0 19 873020 9
Richard Altick
The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British Library by Patrick Kearney. Jay Landesman, 354 pp., £45, July 1981, 0 905150 24 4
Peter Parsons
Ancient Greek Romances
Alan Hollinghurst
Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden Faber, 189 pp., £7.50, June 1981, 0 571 11689 2 A Free Translation by Craig Raine. Salamander, 29 pp., £4.50, June 1981, 0 907540 02 3 A German Requiem by James Fenton. Salamander, 9 pp., £1.50, January 1981, 0 907540 00 7 Caviare at the Funeral by Louis Simpson. Oxford, 89 pp., £4.50, April 1981, 0 19 211943 5
Graham Hough
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions by Victoria Glendinning. Weidenfeld, 391 pp., £9.95, July 1981, 0 297 77801 3
John Sutherland
One and Last Love by John Braine. Eyre Methuen, 175 pp., £6.50, June 1981, 0 413 47990 0 Sweetsir by Helen Yglesias. Hodder, 332 pp., £6.95, August 1981, 9780340270424 On the Yankee Station by William Boyd. Hamish Hamilton, 184 pp., £7.95, July 1981, 0 241 10426 2 Byzantium endures by Michael Moorcock. Secker, 404 pp., £6.95, June 1981, 0 436 28458 8 Heavy Sand by Anatoli Rybakov, translated by Harold Shuckman. Allen Lane, 380 pp., £7.95, June 1981, 0 7139 1343 6
Frank Kermode
Working with Structuralism by David Lodge. Routledge, 207 pp., £10.95, June 1981, 0 7100 0658 6
Robert Melville
Hogarth by David Bindman. Thames and Hudson, 216 pp., £5.95, April 1981, 9780500201824
Michael Ignatieff
‘Civil Disturbances’: Hansard, Vol. 8, Nos 143-144, 16 July 1981 – 17 July 1981 HMSO, £80
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘Private View’
Ann Schlee
Cheerful weather for the wedding
Emma Tennant
Lenare: The Art of Society Photography 1924-1977 by Nicholas de Ville and Anthony Haden-Guest. Allen Lane, 136 pp., £15, May 1981, 0 7139 1418 1
E.S. Turner
Debrett’s Etiquette and Modern Manners edited by Elsie Burch Donald. Debrett, 400 pp., £8.95, June 1981, 0 905649 43 5
Jim Crace
Story: ‘Sins and Virtues’
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