Vol. 5 No. 15 · 18 August 1983
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Vol. 5 No. 15 · 18 August 1983
Christopher Ricks
Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir by David Pryce-Jones. Collins, 304 pp., £12.50, July 1983, 0 333 32827 2 J.B. Yeats: Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 edited with a memoir by Joseph Hone. Secker, 296 pp., £7.95, May 1983, 0 436 59205 3
Letters
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Martin Seymour-Smith, Brigid Brophy, John Murray, Earl Miner
Mary Midgley
Animal Thought by Stephen Walker. Routledge, 388 pp., £17.50, January 1983, 0 7100 9037 4 On the Evolution of Human Behaviour by Peter Reynolds. California, 259 pp., £20, December 1981, 0 520 04294 8 The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit by Melvin Konner. Heinemann, 436 pp., £16.50, October 1982, 0 434 39703 2 Sociobiology and the Human Dimension by Georg Breuer. Cambridge, 264 pp., £22.50, January 1983, 0 521 24544 3 Sociobiology and the Pre-Emption of Social Science by Alexander Rosenberg. Blackwell, 210 pp., £9.90, March 1981, 0 631 12625 2
Geoffrey Hawthorn
The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology by Anthony Pagden. Cambridge, 256 pp., £24, September 1982, 0 521 22202 8
Sheldon Rothblatt
The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance by John Kenyon. Weidenfeld, 322 pp., £16.50, March 1983, 0 297 78081 6
Peter Redgrove
Poem: ‘City of Boys’
Gavin Ewart
Poem: ‘An old person reflects on love’
John Maynard Smith
The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism by Karl Popper, edited by W.W. Bartley. Hutchinson, 185 pp., £15, July 1982, 0 09 146180 4
David Pears
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul Kripke. Blackwell, 150 pp., £9.50, September 1982, 0 631 13077 2
Stuart Hampshire
A History of the Modern World: From 1917 to the 1980s by Paul Johnson. Weidenfeld, 832 pp., £16.50, April 1983, 0 297 78226 6
Marilyn Butler
English Literature in History: 1730-80: An Equal, Wide Survey edited by Raymond Williams, by John Barrell. Hutchinson, 228 pp., £13.50, March 1983, 0 09 149820 1 English Literature in History: 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers edited by Raymond Williams, by Janet Coleman. Hutchinson, 337 pp., £12, July 1981, 0 09 144100 5 English Literature in History: 1780-1830: Pastoral and Politics edited by Raymond Williams, by Roger Sales. Hutchinson, 247 pp., £13.50, March 1983, 0 09 149830 9 The Cambridge Guide to English Literature by Michael Stapleton. Cambridge/Newnes Books, 992 pp., £15, April 1983, 9780521256476
Paul Seabright
Utilitarianism and Beyond edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams. Cambridge, 290 pp., £20, June 1982, 0 521 24296 7
Amartya Sen
Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village by C.J. Bliss and N.H. Stern. Oxford, 340 pp., £15, October 1982, 0 19 828419 5
Anne Barton
Homosexuality in Renaissance England by Alan Bray. Gay Men’s Press, 149 pp., £7.95, September 1982, 0 907040 16 0 Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare by Linda Bamber. Stanford, 211 pp., $18.50, June 1982, 0 8047 1126 7 Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Lisa Jardine. Harvester, 202 pp., £18.95, June 1983, 0 7108 0436 9
Julian Barnes
Story: ‘Flaubert’s Parrot’
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: Preposterous Arrangements
D.A.N. Jones
Dangerous Pursuits by Nicholas Salaman. Secker, 192 pp., £7.50, June 1983, 0 436 44086 5 Monimbo by Robert Moss. Weidenfeld, 384 pp., £7.95, August 1983, 0 297 78166 9 The Last Supper by Charles McCarry. Hutchinson, 427 pp., £8.96, May 1983, 0 09 151420 7 Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Heinemann, 179 pp., £7.95, July 1983, 0 434 23700 0 August 1988 by David Fraser. Collins, 235 pp., £8.50, July 1983, 0 00 222725 8 The Cure by Peter Kocan. Angus and Robertson, 137 pp., £5.95, July 1983, 9780207145896
John Bayley
Collected Poems 1970-1983 by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 172 pp., £5.95, May 1983, 0 85635 462 7
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