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Vol. 7 No. 1 · 24 January 1985
Paul Addison
Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence edited by Warren Kimball. Princeton, 674 pp., £125, October 1984, 0 691 05649 8
Letters
Alan Ross, Christopher Norris, Charles Hope, J.R. Evinghuis
Blake Morrison
Poem: ‘Pomagne’
Peter Redgrove
Poem: ‘Unpasteurised’
Barbara Everett
Eliot at smokefall
E.E. Duncan-Jones
Mansfield Forbes and his Cambridge by Hugh Carey. Cambridge, 154 pp., £15, October 1984, 0 521 25680 1
Geoffrey Hartman
The Leavises: Recollections and Impressions edited by Denys Thompson. Cambridge, 207 pp., £15, October 1984, 0 521 25494 9 The Social Mission of English Criticism: 1848-1932 by Chris Baldick. Oxford, 264 pp., £19.50, August 1983, 0 19 812821 5 Radical Earnestness: English Social Theory 1880-1980 by Fred Inglis. Robertson, 253 pp., £16.50, November 1982, 0 85520 328 5 The Critic as Anti-Philosopher: Essays and Papers by F.R. Leavis edited by G. Singh. Chatto, 208 pp., £9.95, November 1982, 0 7011 2644 2
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘V.’
Raymond Williams
The Taliesin Tradition: A Quest for the Welsh Identity by Emyr Humphreys. Black Raven, 245 pp., £10.95, April 1984, 0 85159 002 0 Jones: A Novel by Emyr Humphreys. Dent, 144 pp., £8.95, July 1984, 0 460 04660 8 Wales! Wales? by Dai Smith. Allen and Unwin, 173 pp., £9.95, March 1984, 0 04 942185 9 The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country by Jan Morris. Oxford, 442 pp., £12.50, November 1984, 0 19 215846 5
David Cannadine
The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Faber, 595 pp., £20, March 1984, 0 571 13177 8
Ted Hughes
Poem: ‘Sacrifice’
Conrad Russell
Goodwin Wharton by J. Kent Clark. Oxford, 408 pp., £15, November 1984, 0 19 212234 7 Witchcraft and Religion by Christina Larner. Blackwell, 184 pp., October 1984, 0 631 13447 6 Lordship to Patronage: Scotland 1603-1745 by Rosalind Mitchison. Arnold, 198 pp., £5.95, November 1983, 0 7131 6313 5
Richard Poirier
Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon. Cape, 204 pp., £8.50, January 1985, 0 224 02283 0
Claude Rawson
Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the ‘Mignonette’ by A.W.B. Simpson. Chicago, 353 pp., £21.25, July 1984, 0 226 75942 3
Karl Miller
Diary: Sponsored by the Arts Council
Angela Carter
The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy. Ebury, 144 pp., £8.95, October 1984, 0 85223 348 5 An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David. Hale, 318 pp., £9.95, October 1984, 0 7090 2047 3 Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook by Alice Waters, foreword by Jane Grigson . Chatto, 340 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 0 7011 2820 8
Michael Dummett
Chess: The History of a Game by Richard Eales. Batsford, 240 pp., £12.50, December 1984, 0 7134 4607 2
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