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Vol. 6 No. 11 · 21 June 1984
Michael Neve
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks. Duckworth, 168 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 0 7156 1027 9
Letters
William Hunt, Blair Worden, Barbara Wootton, John Bayley, Daniel Gruenberg, Baruch Rosen, Angus Macdonald, Brian Oxley, Christopher Ricks, Aidan Day, Joss Marsh
Barbara Everett
The Odes of Keats by Helen Vendler. Harvard, 330 pp., £15.70, February 1984, 0 674 63075 0
Anatole Kaletsky
The World’s Money: International Banking from Bretton Woods to the Brink of Insolvency by Michael Moffitt. Joseph, 284 pp., £9.95, February 1984, 0 7181 2414 6 International Debt and the Stability of the World Economy by William Cline. MIT, 134 pp., £5.10, September 1983, 0 262 53048 1 Managing Global Debt by Richard Dale and Richard Mattione. Brookings, 50 pp., October 1983, 0 8157 1717 2
Donald Davie
The Lords of Limit: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Geoffrey Hill. Deutsch, 203 pp., £12.95, May 1984, 0 233 97581 0
Denis Donoghue
Selected Essays by John Bayley. Cambridge, 217 pp., £19.50, March 1984, 0 521 25828 6 Collected Poems: 1941-1983 by Michael Hamburger. Carcanet, 383 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 9780856354977 Poems: 1953-1983 by Anthony Thwaite. Secker, 201 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 436 52151 2
Anne Barton
A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality by A.D. Nuttall. Methuen, 209 pp., £12.95, September 1983, 0 416 31780 4
John Kerrigan
Enderby’s Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby by Anthony Burgess. Hutchinson, 160 pp., £7.95, March 1984, 0 09 156050 0 Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Modern Edition edited by A.L. Rowse. Macmillan, 311 pp., £20, March 1984, 0 333 36386 8
Frank Kermode
Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition by E.H. Gombrich. Phaidon, 270 pp., £17.50, April 1984, 0 7148 2338 4
Graham Hough
Graham Hough thinks about William Empson and his work
Julian Barnes
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983, 0 241 11086 6 Doctor Slaughter by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 137 pp., £6.95, June 1984, 0 241 11255 9
Michael Rose
Story: ‘The Shinka’
John Horgan
Prince of Spies: Henri Le Caron by J.A. Cole. Faber, 221 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 571 13233 2
Patricia Highsmith
‘Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son’: The Story of Peter Sutcliffe by Gordon Burn. Heinemann, 272 pp., £9.95, May 1984, 0 434 09827 2
Julian Girdham
Diary: Mansergh v. Arnold
Carole Angier
Jean Rhys: Letters 1931-1966 edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly. Deutsch, 336 pp., £9.95, May 1984, 0 223 97567 2
Robert Morley
Personal Mark by Alec McCowen. Hamish Hamilton, 236 pp., £7.95, May 1984, 9780241112632 Feeling you’re behind: An Autobiography by Peter Nichols. Weidenfeld, 242 pp., £10.95, May 1984, 0 297 78392 0
Ken Smith
Poem: ‘Your Friend the Drifter’
Rosalind Mitchison
Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner. Blackwell, 150 pp., £12.50, July 1983, 0 631 12992 8
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