Vol. 5 No. 21 · 17 November 1983
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Vol. 5 No. 21 · 17 November 1983
D.A.N. Jones
Peter Hall’s Diaries: The Story of a Dramatic Battle edited by John Goodwin. Hamish Hamilton, 507 pp., £12.95, November 1983, 0 241 11047 5
Letters
Christopher Lloyd, John Lucas, Craig Raine, David Feldman
Peter Medawar
Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science by William Broad and Nicholas Wade. Century, 256 pp., £8.95, July 1983, 0 7126 0243 7
Peter Redgrove
Poem: ‘The Offices in the Old Baths’
Frank Kermode
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. I: 1861-1897 edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies. Cambridge, 446 pp., £19.50, September 1983, 0 521 24216 9
Neal Ascherson
The Story of the ‘Times’ by Oliver Woods and James Bishop. Joseph, 392 pp., £14.95, October 1983, 0 7181 1462 0 Good Times, Bad Times by Harold Evans. Weidenfeld, 430 pp., £11.95, October 1983, 0 297 78295 9
Michael Hofmann
Two Poems
Alan Rusbridger
Parkinson Lobby
Christopher Reid
The Oxford Book of Dreams by Stephen Brook. Oxford, 268 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 19 214130 9
Stephen Bann
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill and John Lawrence. Hamish Hamilton, 160 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 241 10987 6 Legion by William Peter Blatty. Collins, 252 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 00 222735 5 The Lost Flying Boat by Alan Sillitoe. Granada, 288 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 246 12236 6 Snow, and Other Stories by Antony Lambton. Quartet, 134 pp., £6.95, September 1983, 0 7043 2407 5 New Islands, and Other Stories by Maria Luisa Bombal, translated by Richard Cunningham, Lucia Cunningham and Jorge Luis Borges. Faber, 112 pp., £8.50, October 1983, 0 571 12052 0 The Antarctica Cookbook by Crispin Kitto. Duckworth, 190 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 7156 1762 1 Sole Survivor by Maurice Gee. Faber, 232 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 571 13017 8
Derek Walcott
Poem: ‘Militia’
Hermione Lee
Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays by Elizabeth Hardwick. Weidenfeld, 292 pp., £8.95, September 1983, 0 297 78357 2
J.B. Trapp
Thomas More: History and Providence by Alistair Fox. Blackwell, 271 pp., £19.50, September 1982, 0 631 13094 2 The Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More by Jasper Ridley. Constable, 338 pp., £12.50, October 1982, 9780094634701 English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition by John King. Princeton, 539 pp., £30.70, December 1982, 0 691 06502 0 Seven-Headed Luther: Essays in Commemoration of a Quincentenary, 1483-1983 edited by Peter Newman Brooks. Oxford, 325 pp., £22.50, July 1983, 0 19 826648 0 The Complete Works of St Thomas More. Vol. VI: A Dialogue concerning Heresies. Part 1: The Text, Part 2: Introduction, Commentary, Appendices, Glossary, Index edited by T.M.C. Lawler, Germain Marc’hadour and Richard Marius. Yale, 435 pp., £76, November 1981, 0 300 02211 5
Stuart Airlie
Medieval Germany and its Neighbours 900-1250 by K.J. Leyser. Hambledon, 302 pp., £18, February 1983, 0 907628 08 7 TheFrankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians 751-987 by Rosamond McKitterick. Longman, 414 pp., £9.95, June 1983, 0 582 49005 7 Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society: Studies presented to J.M. Wallace-Hadrill edited by Patrick Wormald, Donald Bullough and Roger Collins. Blackwell, 345 pp., £27.50, September 1983, 0 631 12661 9
Peter Godman
Andreas Capellanus on Love translated by P.G. Walsh. Duckworth, 329 pp., £28, November 1982, 0 7156 1436 3
John Gillingham
The Anglo-Saxons edited by James Campbell. Phaidon, 272 pp., £16.50, July 1982, 0 7148 2149 7 Anglo-Saxon Art: A New Perspective by C.R. Dodwell. Manchester, 353 pp., £35, October 1982, 0 7190 0861 1 Anglo-Saxon Poetry edited by S.A.J. Bradley. Dent, 559 pp., £10.95, August 1982, 0 460 10794 1 The Anglo-Saxon World edited by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Boydell and Brewer, 275 pp., £9.95, November 1982, 0 85115 169 8 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles: The Authentic Voices of England, from the Times of Julius Caesar to the Coronation of Henry II by Anne Savage. Heinemann, 288 pp., £14.95, March 1983, 0 434 98210 5
Tom Paulin
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd. Hamish Hamilton, 185 pp., £7.95, April 1983, 0 241 10964 7 The Importance of Being Constance: A Biography of Oscar Wilde’s Wife by Joyce Bentley. Hale, 160 pp., £8.75, May 1983, 0 7090 0538 5 Mrs Oscar Wilde: A Woman of Some Importance by Anne Clark Amor. Sidgwick, 249 pp., £8.95, June 1983, 9780283989674
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: The Mosleys and Other Affairs
Robert M. Adams
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol. VII: ‘Biographia Literaria’ edited by James Engell and Walter Jackson Bate. Routledge/Princeton, 306 pp., £50, May 1983, 0 691 09874 3
Mary Lefkowitz
Miasma by Robert Parker. Oxford, 413 pp., £30, June 1983, 0 19 814835 6
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