Vol. 14 No. 15 · 6 August 1992
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Vol. 14 No. 15 · 6 August 1992
John Sutherland
Decline of Donnish Dominion by A.H. Halsey. Oxford, 344 pp., £40, March 1992, 0 19 827376 2 Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith Goodstein. Norton, 317 pp., £17.95, October 1991, 0 393 03017 2
Letters
Robert Crawford, Diana Hendry, John Webb, Leonard Jackson, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Keith Flett
Tony Honoré
Sex and Reason by Richard Posner. Harvard, 458 pp., £23.95, May 1992, 0 674 80279 9
Frank Kermode
Moral Literacy: Or how to do the right thing by Colin McGinn. Duckworth, 110 pp., £6.99, July 1992, 0 7156 2417 2 The Space Trap by Colin McGinn. Duckworth, 187 pp., £14.99, July 1992, 0 7156 2415 6
Susan Brigden
Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the 17th Century by David Underdown. HarperCollins, 308 pp., £17.99, May 1992, 0 00 215865 5
Jenny Turner
Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark. Constable, 213 pp., £14.95, July 1992, 0 09 469650 0
Naomi Lewis
Dorian’s Castle
Claude Rawson
The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan, edited by James Woolley. Oxford, 363 pp., £50, March 1992, 0 19 812670 0 Jonathan Swift: A Literary Life by Joseph McMinn. Macmillan, 172 pp., £35, May 1991, 9780333485842
Marilyn Butler
The Lyrical Ballads: Longman Annotated Texts edited by Michael Mason. Longman, 419 pp., £29.99, April 1992, 0 582 03302 0 Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession by Susan Eilenberg. Oxford, 278 pp., £30, May 1992, 0 19 506856 4 The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries by Nicholas Roe. Macmillan, 186 pp., £35, April 1992, 0 333 52314 8
Tom Leonard
Poem: ‘poem’
David Bromwich
Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley edited by Janet Todd. Pickering & Chatto, 217 pp., £24.95, January 1992, 1 85196 023 6 Lady Sophia Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn. Pickering & Chatto, 216 pp., £24.95, January 1992, 9781851960217
Craig Raine
Kipling and Modernism
Seamus Heaney
Poem: ‘An Invocation’
Alistair Elliot
Poem: ‘Highland Hospitality’
Jeremy Treglown
Writers on World War Two: An Anthology edited by Mordecai Richler. Chatto, 752 pp., £18.99, February 1992, 0 7011 3912 9 Legacies and Ambiguities: Post-war Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan edited by Ernestine Schlant and Thomas Rimer. Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins, 323 pp., $35, February 1992, 0 943875 30 7
Julian Symons
A Choice of Murder by Peter Vansittart. Peter Owen, 216 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 7206 0832 5 Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Barbara Anderson. Secker, 309 pp., £13.99, June 1992, 9780436200977 Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman. Macmillan, 255 pp., £14.99, June 1992, 0 333 57867 8 Double Down by Tom Kakonis. Macmillan, 308 pp., £14.99, April 1992, 0 333 57492 3
Robert Alter
Life with a Star by Jiri Weil, translated by Rita Klimova and Roslyn Schloss. Flamingo, 247 pp., £4.99, February 1991, 0 00 654329 4 Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil, translated by Marie Winn. HarperCollins, 228 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 0 00 223863 2
Ian Aitken
Diary: Closing Time at the Last Chance Saloon
Philip Purser
Fatherland by Robert Harris. Hutchinson, 372 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 09 174827 5
Paul Delany
Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies. Sinclair-Stevenson, 357 pp., £14.95, October 1991, 1 85619 078 1
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