Vol. 2 No. 22 · 20 November 1980

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Vol. 2 No. 22 · 20 November 1980

Sean O’Faolain

Joyce’s Politics by Dominic Manganiello. Routledge, 260 pp., £12.50, October 1980, 0 7100 0537 7

Letters

Elinor Shaffer, Marilyn Butler, Peter Geach, David Martin, Michael Dummett, E.E. Duncan-Junes, Nicolas Walter, Gabriel Austin, Stanley Sadie

Brian Moore

Selected Poems 1956-1975 by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 136 pp., £3.95, October 1980, 0 571 11644 2
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 224 pp., £7.95, October 1980, 0 571 11638 8

Derek Mahon

Why Brownlee left by Paul Muldoon. Faber, 48 pp., £3, September 1980, 0 571 11592 6
Poems 1956-1973 by Thomas Kinsella. Dolmen, 192 pp., £7.50, September 1980, 0 85105 365 3
Constantly Singing by James Simmons. Blackstaff, 90 pp., £3.95, June 1980, 0 85640 217 6
A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky. Oxford, 151 pp., £4.95, September 1980, 0 19 211939 7
Collected poems 1931-1974 by Lawrence Durrell. Faber, 350 pp., £9, September 1980, 0 571 18009 4

Marilyn Butler

Fanny by Erica Jong. Granada, 496 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 246 11427 4
The Heroine’s Text by Nancy Miller. Columbia, 185 pp., £10, July 1980, 0 231 04910 2

Norman Stone

The Terrible Secret by Walter Laqueur. Weidenfeld, 262 pp., £8.95, September 1980, 0 297 77835 8

Gavin Ewart

Poem: ‘Dickens and I*’

Paul Addison

The Leo Amery Diaries edited by John Barnes and David Nicholson, introduced by Julian Amery. Hutchinson, 653 pp., £27.50, October 1980, 0 09 131910 2

Douglas Johnson

Mon Général by Olivier Guichard. Grasset
Lettres, Notes et Carnets: Vol.1 1905-1918, Vol.2 1919-1940; by Charles de Gaulle. Plon
Le Colonel de Gaulle et les Blindés by Paul Huard. Plon

Pierre Bourdieu

Sartre

Sarah Wintle

English Renaissance Studies edited by John Carey. Oxford, 320 pp., £15, March 1980, 0 19 812093 1

Christopher Hill

The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester edited by Jeremy Treglown. Blackwell, 275 pp., £21, September 1980, 9780631128311

James McConica

Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly by M.A. Screech. Duckworth, 267 pp., £24, June 1980, 0 7156 1044 9

Karl Miller

Young Emma by W.H. Davies. Cape, 158 pp., £5.95, November 1980, 0 224 01853 1

Blake Morrison

Poem: ‘The Renunciation’

Patricia Beer

A Poor Man’s House by Stephen Reynolds. London Magazine Editions, 320 pp., £5.50, August 1980, 0 904388 35 2

Gabriel Josipovici

Story: ‘That Which is Hidden is That Which is Shown; That Which is Shown is That Which is Hidden’

Frank Kermode

Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald. Collins, 177 pp., £5.25, September 1980, 0 00 222280 9
Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge. Duckworth, 157 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 7156 1495 9

Penelope Fitzgerald

A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym. Macmillan, 250 pp., £5.95, July 1980, 0 333 29168 9

Robert Taubman

A Humument by Tom Phillips. Thames and Hudson, 367 pp., £12, October 1980, 0 500 09146 3
The Past by Neil Jordan. Cape, 232 pp., £6.50, October 1980, 0 224 01845 0
Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips. Allen Lane, 194 pp., £5.95, October 1980, 0 7139 1354 1

John Mepham

The Sickle Side of the Moon: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. V, 1932-1935 edited by Nigel Nicolson. Hogarth, 476 pp., £12.50, September 1979, 0 7012 0469 9
Leave the Letters till we’re dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. VI, 1936-41 edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman. Hogarth, 556 pp., £15, September 1980, 0 7012 0470 2
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol. III: 1925-1930 edited by Anne Olivier Bell. Hogarth, 384 pp., £10.50, March 1980, 0 7012 0466 4
Virginia Woolf by Michael Rosenthal. Routledge, 270 pp., £7.95, September 1979, 0 7100 0189 4
Virginia Woolf’s Major Novels: The Fables of Anon by Maria DiBattista. Yale, 252 pp., £11, April 1980, 0 300 02402 9

Robert Dingley

Stanley Spencer RA by Richard Carline, Andrew Causey and Keith Bell. Royal Academy/Weidenfeld, 239 pp., £12.50, September 1980, 0 297 77831 5

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