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Vol. 13 No. 8 · 25 April 1991
John Bayley
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin. HarperCollins, 448 pp., £18, April 1991, 0 00 217662 9
Letters
Frederick Gabrielsen, L.W. Bailey, Dennis Brown, James Wood, Sydney Schiffer, John Kernick, William Driscoll, John Whitworth, Deborah Knuth, Richard Bourne
Michael Howard
Haig’s Command: A Reassessment by Denis Winter. Viking, 362 pp., £18.99, February 1991, 0 670 80255 7
Ross McKibbin
The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Kinnock by David Marquand. Heinemann, 248 pp., £20, January 1991, 0 434 45094 4
Tam Dalyell
Tam Dalyell gives reasons for postponing a Te Deum
Mark Ford
Poem: ‘Funny Peculiar’
Robert Crawford
Love Poems for Alice with Old Cars
Douglas Johnson
The Battle of France: Six weeks which changed the world by Philip Warner. Simon and Schuster, 275 pp., £16, April 1990, 0 671 71030 3 The Last War between Britain and France 1940-1942 by Warren Tute. Collins, 334 pp., £16, January 1990, 0 00 215318 1 Darlan by Hervé Coutau-Bégarie and Claude Huan. Fayard, 873 pp., frs 190, May 1989, 2 213 02271 2
Jon Elster
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence. Hutchinson, 876 pp., £19.95, May 1990, 0 09 174472 5 Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1880s to the 1980s by Jack Gray. Oxford, 456 pp., £35, April 1990, 0 19 913076 0
Asa Briggs
The Pencil: A History by Henry Petroski. Faber, 434 pp., £14.99, November 1990, 0 571 16182 0
Claude Rawson
The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan. Yale, 230 pp., £18.95, October 1990, 0 300 04783 5 Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy and Tradition by Alasdair MacIntyre. Duckworth, 241 pp., £12.95, August 1990, 0 7156 2337 0 Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman. Poseidon, 318 pp., $21.95, February 1991, 0 671 68239 3
Robert Alter
The Confessions of Saint Augustine translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick. Oxford, 311 pp., £17.50, February 1991, 0 19 281779 5
Elaine Showalter
Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of ‘The Awakening’ by Emily Toth. Century, 528 pp., £20, March 1991, 0 7126 4621 3
Frank Kermode
A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf, 1897-1909 edited by Mitchell Leaska. Hogarth, 444 pp., £25, October 1990, 0 7012 0845 7 A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn. Cape, 338 pp., £16.99, October 1990, 0 224 02234 2
A.D. Nuttall
The Names of Comedy by Anne Barton. Oxford, 221 pp., £22.50, August 1990, 0 19 811793 0
Jonathan Bate
William Blake: His Life by James King. Weidenfeld, 263 pp., £25, March 1991, 0 297 81160 6
John Bayley
John Bayley writes about Graham Greene
Hilary Gaskin
Diary: From Nuremberg to the Gulf
Walter Nash
Saraband by Patrice Chaplin. Methuen, 216 pp., £13.99, February 1991, 0 413 63290 3 Pious Secrets by Irene Dische. Bloomsbury, 147 pp., £14.99, February 1991, 0 7475 0835 6 City of the Mind by Penelope Lively. Deutsch, 220 pp., £12.99, March 1991, 0 233 98661 8
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