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Vol. 4 No. 16 · 2 September 1982
John Bayley
Shadow Train by John Ashbery. Carcanet, 50 pp., £3.25, March 1982, 0 85635 424 4
Letters
Christopher Price, Gabriel Josipovici, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Simon Schaffer, Edward Smithies, Arthur Freeman, Isabel Jacobs, Brian Martin, Robert Bernard Martin, David Ross, Liz Calder
William Empson
Ulysses by Hugh Kenner. Allen and Unwin, 182 pp., £10, March 1982, 0 00 480003 6 A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume 1882-1982 edited by E.L. Epstein. Methuen, 164 pp., £9.50, February 1982, 0 416 31560 7
Marilyn Butler
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 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 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
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘A Voice in the Garden’
Alan Brownjohn
Poem: ‘A Statue of Innocence, or Geological Time in the Department’
Graham Bradshaw
Hamlet edited by Harold Jenkins. Methuen, 592 pp., £12.50, April 1982, 9780416179101 The Taming of the Shrew edited by Brian Morris. Methuen, 396 pp., £12.50, December 1981, 0 416 47580 9 Richard III edited by Antony Hammond. Methuen, 396 pp., £12.50, December 1981, 0 416 17970 3 Much Ado about Nothing edited by A.R. Humphreys. Methuen, 256 pp., £11.50, November 1981, 0 416 17990 8
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Homer, Iliad XXIV by Colin Macleod. Cambridge, 161 pp., £15, March 1982, 9780521243537
Jon Halliday
Fear and Loathing in Tirana
Brian Bond
Alanbrooke by David Fraser. Collins, 604 pp., £12.95, April 1982, 0 00 216360 8
Gabriele Annan
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer Cape, 610 pp., £10.50, July 1982, 0 224 02024 2
Allon White
Oh what a paradise it seems by John Cheever. Cape, 99 pp., £5.50, July 1982, 0 224 02930 4 Collected Short Stories by John Cheever. Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982, 0 14 005575 4 So long a Letter by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas. Virago, £5.50, August 1982, 0 86068 295 1 A joke goes a long way in the country by Alannah Hopkin. Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982, 0 241 10798 9
Anita Brookner
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Joseph, 638 pp., £9.95, July 1982, 0 7181 0970 8
Christopher Driver
Simple French Food by Richard Olney. Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 339 pp., £7.95, October 1981, 0 906908 22 1 Living off nature by Judy Urquhart. Penguin, 396 pp., £5.95, May 1982, 0 14 005107 4 The Food and Cooking of Russia by Lesley Chamberlain. Allen Lane, 330 pp., £9.95, June 1982, 0 7139 1468 8 Food, Wine and Friends by Robert Carrier. Sphere, 197 pp., £6.95, October 1981, 0 7221 2295 0 The Colour Book of Fast Food edited by Alison Kerr. Octopus, 77 pp., £1.99, June 1981, 0 7064 1510 8
Ian Hamilton
Diary: Self-Exposure at the Football Terrace
Ernest Gellner
Cooking, Cuisine and Class: A Study in Comparative Sociology by Jack Goody. Cambridge, 253 pp., £19.50, June 1982, 0 521 24455 2
Clive James
Poem: ‘Godfrey in Paradise’
Tom Paulin
Poem: ‘Oxford v. Cambridge v. Birmingham etc’
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