Vol. 10 No. 17 · 29 September 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 17 · 29 September 1988
Frank Kermode
Eliot’s New Life by Lyndall Gordon. Oxford, 356 pp., £15, September 1988, 0 19 811727 2 The Letters of T.S. Eliot edited by Valerie Eliot. Faber, 618 pp., £25, September 1988, 0 571 13621 4 The Poetics of Impersonality by Maud Ellmann. Harvester, 207 pp., £32.50, January 1988, 0 7108 0463 6 T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism by Richard Shusterman. Duckworth, 236 pp., £19.95, February 1988, 0 7156 2187 4 ‘The Men of 1914’: T.S. Eliot and Early Modernism by Erik Svarny. Open University, 268 pp., £30, September 1988, 0 335 09019 2 Eliot, Joyce and Company by Stanley Sultan. Oxford, 326 pp., £25, March 1988, 0 19 504880 6 The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot by Robert Crawford. Oxford, 251 pp., £25, December 1987, 9780198128694 T.S. Eliot: The Poems by Martin Scofield. Cambridge, 264 pp., £25, March 1988, 0 521 30147 5
Letters
Dudley Miles, David Craig, Keith Flett, Kate Graham, Anthony Rudolf, John Stone
Stephen Greenblatt
‘Ronald Reagan’, the Movie, and Other Episodes in Political Demonology by Michael Rogin. California, 366 pp., £19.95, April 1987, 0 520 05937 9
Ted Hughes
Poem: ‘Take what you want but pay for it’
Les Murray
Poem: ‘Glaze’
John Bayley
Something to hold onto: Autobiographical Sketches by Richard Cobb. Murray, 168 pp., £12.95, September 1988, 0 7195 4587 0
John Lanchester
Utz by Bruce Chatwin. Cape, 154 pp., £9.95, September 1988, 0 224 02608 9
Patrick Parrinder
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Viking, 547 pp., £12.95, September 1988, 0 670 82537 9 The Lost Father by Marina Warner. Chatto, 277 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 0 7011 3220 5 Nice Work by David Lodge. Secker, 277 pp., £10.95, September 1988, 0 436 25667 3
James Greene
Poem: ‘No Man’s Land’
Karl Miller
Difficulties with girls by Kingsley Amis. Hutchinson, 276 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 9780091735050
Denis Hirson
Middlepost by Anthony Sher. Chatto, 379 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 0 7011 3301 5
Graham Coster
Story: ‘The Marabar Caves’
Vikram Seth
Forms and Inspirations
Andrew Scull
Mind Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency by Roy Porter. Athlone, 412 pp., £25, August 1987, 0 485 11324 4 The Past and the Present Revisited by Lawrence Stone. Routledge, 440 pp., £19.95, October 1987, 0 7102 1253 4 Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in 17th-Century England by Lucinda McCray Beier. Routledge, 314 pp., £30, December 1987, 0 7102 1053 1 Illness and Self in Society by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, translated by Elborg Forster. Johns Hopkins, 271 pp., £20.25, January 1988, 0 8018 3228 4 Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870 by Hilary Marland. Cambridge, 503 pp., £40, September 1987, 0 521 32575 7 A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane by Roy Porter. Weidenfeld, 261 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 297 79223 7
George Hyde
Diary: Story of a Mental Breakdown
Jonathan Bate
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol. V: Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature edited by R.A. Foakes. Princeton/Routledge, 604 pp., £55, December 1987, 0 691 09872 7
E.S. Turner
The Berlin Blockade by Ann Tusa and John Tusa. Hodder, 445 pp., £16.95, June 1988, 0 340 41607 6
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