Vol. 4 No. 19 · 21 October 1982
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Vol. 4 No. 19 · 21 October 1982
Peter Clarke
The Rebirth of Britain edited by Wayland Kennet. Weidenfeld, 275 pp., £12, October 1982, 0 297 78177 4 Claret and Chips by Hugh Stephenson. Joseph, 201 pp., £8.95, September 1982, 0 7181 2204 6
Letters
Graham Bradshaw, Marilyn Butler, Nicolas Walter, Anton Logoreci, Mark Callan, Désirée Park, George Armstrong Kelly
Arthur Marwick
Attlee by Kenneth Harris. Weidenfeld, 630 pp., £14.95, September 1982, 0 297 77993 1
David Cannadine
Palmerston: The Early Years, 1784-1841 by Kenneth Bourne. Allen Lane, 749 pp., £25, August 1982, 0 7139 1083 6
Geoffrey Hartman
Deconstruction: Theory and Practice by Christopher Norris. Methuen, 157 pp., £6.50, April 1982, 0 416 32060 0
Jon Stallworthy
Poem: ‘In Memory of Geoffrey Keynes Ktlate of Lammas House 1887-1982’
Geoffrey Hawthorn
The Sexual Fix by Stephen Heath. Macmillan, 191 pp., £12.95, June 1982, 0 333 32750 0 Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath. Macmillan, 257 pp., £12.50, August 1981, 0 333 26122 4 ‘Sight and Sound’: A 50th-Anniversary Selection edited by David Wilson. Faber, 327 pp., £12.50, September 1982, 0 571 11943 3
Ian Hamilton
Women Working: Prostitution Now by Eileen McLeod. Croom Helm, 177 pp., £6.95, August 1982, 0 7099 1717 1 An English Madam: The Life and Work of Cynthia Payne by Paul Bailey. Cape, 166 pp., £7.50, October 1982, 0 224 02037 4 All the Girls by Martin O’Brien. Macmillan, 268 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 333 31099 3
Alan Hollinghurst
Poem: ‘Mud’
Michael Neve
The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of 18th-Century Science edited by G.S. Rousseau and R.S. Porter. Cambridge, 500 pp., £25, November 1980, 9780521225991 Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin by Thomas McFarland. Princeton, 432 pp., £24.60, February 1981, 0 691 06437 7 Poetry realised in Nature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early 19th-Century Science by Trevor Levere. Cambridge, 271 pp., £22.50, October 1981, 0 521 23920 6 Coleridge by Richard Holmes. Oxford, 102 pp., £1.25, March 1982, 0 19 287591 4 Young Charles Lamb 1775-1802 by Winifred Courtney. Macmillan, 411 pp., £25, July 1982, 0 333 31534 0
Karl Miller
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin. Cape, 249 pp., £7.50, September 1982, 0 224 01980 5
Robert Taubman
Ill seen ill said by Samuel Beckett. Calder, 59 pp., £4.95, August 1982, 0 7145 3895 7 Mantissa by John Fowles. Cape, 192 pp., £6.95, October 1982, 9780224029384 Sounding the terriotory by Laurel Goldman. Faber, 307 pp., £7.95, September 1982, 9780571119622 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. Chatto, 303 pp., £7.50, September 1982, 0 7011 2648 5
J.I.M. Stewart
Of This and Other Worlds by C.S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper. Collins, 192 pp., £7.95, September 1982, 0 00 215608 3 George Orwell: A Personal Memoir by T.R. Fyvel. Weidenfeld, 221 pp., £9.95, September 1982, 0 297 78012 3
David Lodge
Dam and Blast
Barbara Wootton
The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Vol. I 1873-1892: Glitter Around and Darkness Within edited by Norman Mackenzie and Jeanne Mackenzie. Virago, 386 pp., £15, October 1982, 0 86068 209 9
Hans Keller
Hanns Eisler: Political Musician by Albrecht Betz, translated by Bill Hopkins. Cambridge, 326 pp., £25, June 1982, 0 521 24022 0 Music and Political: Collected Writings 1953-81 by Hans Werner Henze, translated by Peter Labanyi. Faber, 286 pp., £15, July 1982, 0 571 11719 8 Vindications: Essays on Romantic Music by Deryck Cooke and Bryan Magee. Faber, 226 pp., £12.50, July 1982, 0 571 11795 3
Clive James
Poem: ‘Diary’
Patrick Wormald
Dark Age Economics: The Origins of Towns and Trade, AD 600-1000 by Richard Hodges. Duckworth, 230 pp., £24, March 1982, 0 7156 1531 9 Londinium: London in the Roman Empire by John Morris. Weidenfeld, 384 pp., £15, March 1982, 9780297780939
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