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Vol. 22 No. 3 · 3 February 2000
Jeremy Harding
The Uninvited
Letters
Bernard Bergonzi, David Goldberg, William Rubinstein, Paul Drabkin, Rob Ferguson, Hari Kunzru, Amit Chaudhuri, Peter Wollen, David George, Christopher Hitchens
Paul Muldoon
Poem: ‘Famous First Words’
Leah Price
The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks. Oxford, 690 pp., £25, October 1999, 0 19 214182 1 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume One edited by M.H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt. Norton, 2974 pp., £22.50, December 1999, 0 393 97487 1 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume Two edited by M.H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt. Norton, 2963 pp., £22.50, February 2000, 9780393974911 The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume One edited by David Damrosch. Longman, 2963 pp., $53, July 1999, 0 321 01173 2 The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume Two edited by David Damrosch. Longman, 2982 pp., $53, July 1999, 0 321 01174 0 Night & Horses & The Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature edited by Robert Irwin. Allen Lane, 480 pp., £25, September 1999, 0 7139 9153 4 News that Stays News: The 20th Century in Poems edited by Simon Rae. Faber, 189 pp., £9.99, October 1999, 0 571 20060 5 Time’s Tidings: Greeting the 21st Century by Carol Ann Duffy. Anvil, 157 pp., £7.95, November 1999, 0 85646 313 2 Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the 20th Century in Poetry edited by Peter Forbes. Penguin, 640 pp., £12.99, February 1999, 9780140588996
James Wolcott
Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan. Bloomsbury, 850 pp., £25, October 1999, 0 7475 4671 1
Jenny Diski
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse. Harvill, 263 pp., £16.99, December 1999, 1 86046 623 0
David Blackbourn
Einstein's German World by Fritz Stern. Princeton, 335 pp., £15.95, October 1999, 9780691059396
Andrew Berry
Almost like a Whale: ‘The Origin of Species’ Updated by Steve Jones. Doubleday, 402 pp., £20, September 1999, 0 385 40985 0
John Vincent
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism by Conrad Russell. Duckworth, 128 pp., £12.95, September 1999, 0 7156 2947 6
Robert Irwin
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand. Edinburgh, 648 pp., £80, July 1999, 0 7486 0905 9
August Kleinzahler
Four Poems
Paul Laity
Diary: Henry Woodd Nevinson
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