Vol. 8 No. 2 · 6 February 1986
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Vol. 8 No. 2 · 6 February 1986
Paul Foot
Westland Ho
Letters
Nicolas Walter, Eric Griffiths, Raman Selden, C.K. Stead, John May, Colin Smith, Andrew Motion
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘Following Pine’
J.R. Shackleton
The Retreat from Monetarism
Hugh Barnes
Stroke Counterstroke by William Camp. Joseph, 190 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 0 7181 2669 6 Redhill Rococo by Shena Mackay. Heinemann, 171 pp., £9.95, February 1986, 0 434 44046 9 Striker by Michael Irwin. Deutsch, 231 pp., £8.95, September 1985, 0 233 97792 9
John Maynard Smith
The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin. Harvard, 303 pp., £18.50, August 1985, 0 674 20281 3
David Allen
New Images of the Natural in France: A study in European Cultural History 1750-1800 by D.G. Charlton. Cambridge, 254 pp., £25, December 1984, 0 521 24940 6 Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account 1760-1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford. MIT, 645 pp., £39.95, July 1984, 0 262 19223 3
Malcolm Deas
Holy Smoke by G. Cabrera Infante. Faber, 329 pp., £9.95, October 1985, 0 571 13518 8 Tobacco on the Periphery. A Case Study in Cuban Labour History: 1860-1958 by Jean Stubbs. Cambridge, 203 pp., £25, April 1985, 9780521254236
Denis Donoghue
Literature and Popular Culture in 18th-Century England by Pat Rogers. Harvester, 215 pp., £22.50, April 1985, 0 7108 0981 6 Eighteenth-Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole by Pat Rogers. Harvester, 173 pp., £22.50, April 1985, 0 7108 0986 7 Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in 18th-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper by Claude Rawson. Allen and Unwin, 431 pp., £30, August 1985, 0 04 800019 1 Jonathan Swift edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley. Oxford, 722 pp., £6.95, June 1984, 0 19 281337 4
Clive James
Poem: ‘A Valediction for Philip Larkin’
Claude Rawson
The Name of Action: Critical Essays by John Fraser. Cambridge, 260 pp., £25, December 1984, 0 521 25876 6
E.S. Turner
Travels with a Superior Person by Lord Curzon, edited by Peter King. Sidgwick, 191 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 283 99294 8 The Ladies of Castlebrae by A. Whigham Price. Alan Sutton, 242 pp., £10.95, October 1985, 0 86299 228 1 Lizzie: A Victorian Lady’s Amazon Adventure by Tony Morrison, Anne Brown and Ann Rose. BBC, 160 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 0 563 20424 9 Miss Fane in India by [author], edited by John Pemble. Alan Sutton, 246 pp., £10.95, October 1985, 0 86299 240 0 Explorers Extraordinary by John Keay. Murray/BBC Publications, 195 pp., £10.95, November 1985, 0 7195 4249 9 A Visit to Germany, Italy and Malta 1840-41 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Grace Thornton. Peter Owen, 182 pp., £12.50, October 1985, 0 7206 0636 5 The Irish Sketch-Book 1842 by William Makepeace Thackeray. Blackstaff, 368 pp., £9.95, December 1985, 0 85640 340 7 Mr Rowlandson’s England by Robert Southey, edited by John Steel. Antique Collectors’ Club, 202 pp., £14.95, November 1985, 0 907462 77 4
Patrick Parrinder
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber, 206 pp., £9.95, February 1986, 0 571 13608 7 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Methuen, 337 pp., £4.50, January 1986, 0 413 59720 2 Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates. Methuen, 347 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 9780413597304 Ellen by Ita Daly. Cape, 144 pp., £8.95, January 1986, 0 224 02833 2
Peter Burke
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence. Faber, 350 pp., £15, April 1985, 0 571 13239 1 Chine et Christianisme: Action et Réaction by Jacques Gernet. Gallimard, 342 pp., frs 154, May 1982, 2 07 026366 5
Wendy Cope
Poem: ‘My Lover’
Dan Jacobson
Story: ‘The Circuit’
Andrew Gurr
Forms of Attention by Frank Kermode. Chicago, 93 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 226 43168 1 Shakespeare: A Writer’s Progress by Philip Edwards. Oxford, 204 pp., £12.50, January 1986, 0 19 219184 5 Shakespeare’s Lost Play: ‘Edmund Ironside’ edited by Eric Sams. Fourth Estate, 383 pp., £25, January 1986, 0 947795 95 2 Such is my love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Joseph Pequigney. Chicago, 249 pp., £16.95, October 1985, 0 226 65563 6 Shakespeare Survey 38: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production edited by Stanley Wells. Cambridge, 262 pp., £25, January 1986, 0 521 32026 7 The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama by Catherine Belsey. Methuen, 253 pp., £13.95, September 1985, 0 416 32700 1
John Kerrigan
Diary: Lost Shakespeare
C.H. Sisson
The Queen has been pleased: The British Honours System at Work by John Walker. Secker, 216 pp., £9.95, January 1986, 0 436 56111 5
D.A.N. Jones
Jackdaw Cake: ‘An Autobiography’ by Norman Lewis. Hamish Hamilton, 214 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 241 11689 9
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