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Vol. 2 No. 11 · 5 June 1980
Clive James
Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz. Sidgwick, 464 pp., £5.95, May 1980, 0 283 98647 6
Letters
Raymond Daoust, Edward Mendelson, Francis Landy
Brigid Brophy
Practical Ethics by Peter Singer. Cambridge, 237 pp., £10, February 1980, 0 521 22920 0
Frank Kermode
The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s by Blake Morrison. Oxford, 326 pp., £8.50, May 1980, 9780192122100 The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945-1980 by D.J. Enright. Oxford, 299 pp., £7.50, May 1980, 0 19 214108 2
Hans Keller
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl Schorske. Weidenfeld, 378 pp., £15, May 1980, 0 297 77772 6 A Nervous Splendour: Vienna 1888/1889 by Frederic Morton. Weidenfeld, 340 pp., £8.95, May 1980, 0 297 77769 6
Gabriel Josipovici
Late Antique, Early Christian and Medieval Art: Selected Papers, Vol. 3 by Meyer Schapiro. Chatto, 414 pp., £20, April 1980, 0 7011 2514 4
Frederick Seidel
Poem: ‘Scotland’
Rosalind Mitchison
The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1843 by Ian Levitt and Christopher Smout. Scottish Academic Press, 284 pp., £7.50, December 1979, 0 7073 0247 1
Christopher Salvesen
The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840 by John Barrell. Cambridge, 179 pp., £15, March 1980, 0 521 22509 4
Anne Barton
Shakespeare’s Tragic Practice by Bertrand Evans. Oxford, 327 pp., £12.50, December 1979, 9780198120940 The Tragic Effect: The Oedipus Complex in Tragedy by André Green, translated by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge, 264 pp., £10.50, October 1979, 0 521 21377 0 Shakespeare’s Tragic Sequence by Kenneth Muir. Liverpool, 207 pp., £9.50, November 1979, 0 85323 184 2 Shakespeare’s Comic Sequence by Kenneth Muir. Liverpool, 207 pp., £9.50, November 1979, 0 85323 064 1
William Empson
William Empson remembers I.A. Richards
Alasdair MacIntyre
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty. Blackwell, 401 pp., £12.50, May 1980, 0 631 12961 8 The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality and Tragedy by Stanley Cavell. Oxford, 511 pp., £12.50, February 1980, 0 19 502571 7 Philosophy As It Is edited by Ted Honderich and Myles Burnyeat. Pelican, 540 pp., £2.95, November 1979, 0 14 022136 0
Roger Poole
Structuralism and Since: From Lévi-Strauss to Derrida edited by John Sturrock. Oxford, 190 pp., £5.50, January 1980, 0 19 215839 2
George Steiner
Instaurations: Essays in and out of Literature Pindar to Pound by D.S. Carne-Ross. California, 275 pp., £10.50, December 1979, 0 520 03619 0
Michael Mason
In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa. Cape, 183 pp., £5.50, January 1980, 0 224 01775 6
Michael Irwin
Letters by John Barth. Secker, 772 pp., £7.95, May 1980, 0 436 03674 6 The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim. Eyre Methuen, 94 pp., £4.95, April 1980, 0 413 45890 3 Passion Play by Jerzy Kosinski. Joseph, 271 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 7181 1913 4
Derek Mahon
Carminalenia by Christopher Middleton. Carcanet, 120 pp., £3.95, February 1980, 0 85635 284 5 The Strange Museum by Tom Paulin. Faber, 51 pp., £3.50, March 1980, 9780571115112 The Psalms with their Spoils by Jon Silkin. Routledge, 74 pp., £2.95, April 1980, 0 7100 0497 4 The Equal Skies by Norman MacCaig. Chatto, 64 pp., £3.75, March 1980, 0 7011 2491 1 Sibyls and Others by Ruth Fainlight. Hutchinson, 141 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 09 141030 4
Christopher Middleton
Poem: ‘People in Kansas, 1910’
Penelope Gilliatt
Romeo and Tito
Robert Kee
Moscow Diary by Veljko Micunovic, translated by David Floyd. Chatto, 474 pp., £12.95, April 1980, 0 7011 2469 5
R.K. Narayan
Story: ‘Trail of the Green Blazer’
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