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Vol. 3 No. 6 · 2 April 1981
Frank Kermode
God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940 by William Gerhardie, Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky. Hodder, 360 pp., £11.95, March 1981, 0 340 26340 7 Futility by William Gerhardie. Penguin, 184 pp., £1.75, February 1981, 0 14 000391 6
Letters
Roberthall, Enid Lakeman, William Vaughan, Richard Webster, Barbara Pankhurst, Patrick Curry, Claire Tomalin, John Spiers, Ursula Owen
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Life with Lowry by Tilly Marshall. Hutchinson, 260 pp., £7.95, February 1981, 0 09 144090 4
Brigid Brophy
Aubrey Beardsley: An Account of his Life by Miriam Benkovitz. Hamish Hamilton, 226 pp., £8.95, February 1981, 0 241 10382 7
David Cannadine
Survey of London. Vol. 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2. The Buildings edited by F.H.W. Sheppard. Athlone, 428 pp., £55, August 1980, 0 485 48240 1
Sidney Pollard
Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774-1967 by David Cannadine. Leicester University Press, 494 pp., £19, July 1980, 0 7185 1152 2
Peter Campbell
Homes fit for Heroes by Mark Swenarton. Heinemann, 216 pp., £14.50, February 1981, 0 435 32994 4 The Shell Book of the Home in Britain by James Ayres. Faber, 253 pp., £8.95, March 1981, 0 571 11625 6
Samuel Hynes
Paul Nash by Andrew Causey. Oxford, 511 pp., £35, June 1980, 0 19 817348 2 The Enemy by Jeffrey Meyers. Routledge, 391 pp., £15, July 1980, 0 7100 0514 8 Wyndham Lewis: A Revaluation edited by Jeffrey Meyers. Athlone, 276 pp., £13.50, May 1980, 0 485 11193 4 Wyndham lewis by Jane Farrington. Lund Humphries, 128 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 85331 434 9
Tom Phillips
English Art and Modernism 1900-1939 by Charles Harrison. Allen Lane, 416 pp., £20, February 1981, 0 7139 0792 4
Robert Melville
Interviews with Francis Bacon 1962-1979 edited by David Sylvester. Thames and Hudson, 176 pp., £4.95, October 1980, 0 500 27196 8
Peter Burke
The First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century by Joseph Rykwert. M.I.T., 585 pp., £27.50, September 1980, 0 262 18090 1
Charles Hope
Andrea Schiavone by Francis Richardson. Oxford, 225 pp., £30, April 1980, 0 19 817332 6
Thomas Puttfarken
Titian by Charles Hope. Jupiter Books, 170 pp., £12.50, June 1980, 0 906379 09 1
Nicholas Penny
Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts by Irving Lavin. Oxford, 255 pp., £45, October 1980, 0 19 520184 1
Jon Whiteley
Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision by Albert Boime. Yale, 683 pp., £35, June 1980, 0 300 02158 5
John Barrell
Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot by Michael Fried. California, 249 pp., £16.50, February 1981, 0 520 03758 8
David Bindman
William Blake, printmaker by Robert Essick. Princeton, 304 pp., £27.50, August 1980, 0 691 03954 2
Peter Lamarque
Art and Its Objects by Richard Wollheim. Cambridge, 270 pp., £12.50, November 1980, 0 521 22898 0 Works and Worlds of Art by Nicholas Wolterstorff. Oxford, 372 pp., £20, December 1980, 0 19 824419 3
Bernard Williams
Religion and Public Doctrine in England by Maurice Cowling. Cambridge, 475 pp., £20, December 1980, 0 521 23289 9
Andrew Motion
Poem: ‘The First of Things’
Michael Mason
George Eliot, Joyce and Cambridge
Patricia Beer
The Poetry of Edward Thomas by Andrew Motion. Routledge, 193 pp., £8.95, November 1980, 0 7100 0471 0
Michael Irwin
The Country by David Plante. Gollancz, 159 pp., £6.95, March 1981, 0 575 02938 2 The Radiant Future by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Gordon Clough. Bodley Head, 287 pp., £7.50, March 1981, 0 370 30219 2 Farewell to Europe by Walter Laqueur. Weidenfeld, 310 pp., £6.50, March 1981, 0 297 77870 6
J.I.M. Stewart
Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered by Joseph Conrad. Cambridge, 218 pp., £10.50, March 1981, 0 521 22805 0
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