Frank Kermode

Frank Kermode’s Bury Place Papers and Concerning E.M. Forster were published in 2009. He continues stubbornly to live in Cambridge.

In the LRB Archive:

• Our Supersubstantial Bread: God’s Plot · 25 March 2010

  • A History of Christianity: The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch

• Topping Entertainment: Britten · 28 January 2010

  • Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten edited by John Evans

• Theophany: William Golding · 5 November 2009

  • William Golding: The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’ by John Carey

• Fictioneering: J.M. Coetzee · 8 October 2009

  • Summertime by J.M. Coetzee

• Mistress of Disappearances: Eluding Muriel Spark · 10 September 2009

  • Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard

• Exercises and Excesses: Kazuo Ishiguro · 14 May 2009

  • Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Too Good and Too Silly: Could Darcy Swim? · 30 April 2009

  • The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, Vol. IX: Later Manuscripts edited by Janet Todd and Linda Bree
  • Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman

• Hysterical Vigour · 23 October 2008

  • Indignation by Philip Roth

• Sly Digs: E.M. Forster as Critic · 25 September 2008

  • ‘The Creator as Critic’ and Other Writings by E.M. Forster, edited by Jeffrey Heath

• The Daughter Who Hated Her: Doris Lessing · 17 July 2008

  • Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing

• Offered to the Gods: Sacrifice · 5 June 2008

  • Culture and Sacrifice: Ritual Death in Literature and Opera by Derek Hughes

• Did It Happen on 9 April?: the Resurrection · 20 March 2008

  • The Resurrection by Geza Vermes

• With Slip and Slapdash: Auden’s Prose · 7 February 2008

  • The Complete Works of W.H. Auden. Vol. III: Prose, 1949-55 edited by Edward Mendelson

• Not Just Yet: The Literature of Old Age · 13 December 2007

  • The Long Life by Helen Small

• Nothing for Ever and Ever: Housman’s Pleasures · 5 July 2007

  • The Letters of A.E. Housman edited by Archie Burnett

• Fiction and E.M. Forster: At the Cost of Life · 10 May 2007

• Who has the gall?: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · 8 March 2007

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Bernard O’Donoghue
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage

• Was it a supernova?: the Nativity · 4 January 2007

  • The Nativity: History and Legend by Geza Vermes

• ‘Disgusting’: remembering William Empson · 16 November 2006

  • William Empson. Vol. II: Against the Christians by John Haffenden

• Going Against: Is There a Late Style? · 5 October 2006

  • On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward Said
  • Late Thoughts: Reflections on Artists and Composers at Work edited by Karen Painter and Thomas Crow

• ‘It’s the way people like us don’t talk’: Andrew Motion’s Boyhood · 7 September 2006

  • In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood by Andrew Motion

• Flinch Wince Jerk Shirk: Christine Brooke-Rose · 6 April 2006

  • Life, End of by Christine Brooke-Rose

• Blackening: Doubting Thomas · 5 January 2006

  • Doubting Thomas by Glenn Most

• Here she is: Zadie Smith · 6 October 2005

  • On Beauty by Zadie Smith

• A Hammer in His Hands: Lowell’s Letters · 22 September 2005

  • The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton

• Yearning for the ‘Utile’: Snobbery and John Carey · 23 June 2005

  • What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey

• The Savage Life: The Adventures of William Empson · 19 May 2005

  • William Empson: Vol. I: Among the Mandarins by John Haffenden

• Outrageous Game: Ishiguro’s Nightmares · 21 April 2005

  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• A Very Smart Bedint: Harold Nicolson · 17 March 2005

  • Harold Nicolson by Norman Rose

• Our Muddy Vesture · 6 January 2005

  • William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ directed by Michael Radford

• Manufactured Humbug: a great forger of the nineteenth century · 16 December 2004

  • John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the 19th Century by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman

• Why didn’t he commit suicide?: Reviewing T.S. Eliot · 4 November 2004

  • T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews by Jewel Spears Brooker

• Retripotent: B. S. Johnson · 5 August 2004

  • Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe
  • 'Trawl', 'Albert Angelo' and 'House Mother Normal' by B.S. Johnson

• Clutching at Insanity: Winnicott and psychoanalysis · 4 March 2004

  • Winnicott: Life and Work by Robert Rodman

• The Sacred Cause of Idiom: Lady Gregory · 22 January 2004

  • Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín

• Hard Labour: Marvell beneath the Notes · 23 October 2003

  • The Poems of Andrew Marvell edited by Nigel Smith

• Closets of Knowledge: Privacy · 19 June 2003

  • Privacy: Concealing the 18th-Century Self by Patricia Meyer Spacks

• Reticulation: Wordsworth at Sea · 6 February 2003

  • The Wreck of the 'Abergavenny' by Alethea Hayter

• Snarling: Angry Young Men · 28 November 2002

  • The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s by Humphrey Carpenter

• To Kill All Day: Amis’s Terrible News · 17 October 2002

  • Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis

• Lager and Pernod: Alan Warner · 22 August 2002

  • The Man Who Walks by Alan Warner

• Pillors of Fier: Anthony Burgess · 11 July 2002

  • Nothing like the Sun: reissue by Anthony Burgess

• Reports from the Not Too Distant Canon · 23 May 2002

  • The Invasion Handbook by Tom Paulin

• In the Spirit of Mayhew: Rohinton Mistry · 25 April 2002

  • Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

• Zounds: Blasphemy · 14 January 2002

  • Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the 17th to the 19th Century by Alain Cabantous, translated by Eric Rauth

• Point of View: Atonement by Ian McEwan · 4 October 2001

  • Atonement by Ian McEwan

• What Naipaul knows: V.S. Naipaul · 6 September 2001

  • Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

• Meaningless Legs: John Gielgud · 21 June 2001

  • Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 by Jonathan Croall
  • John G.: The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud by Sheridan Morley
  • John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life by Gyles Brandreth

• Nutmegged: The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis. · 10 May 2001

  • The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis

• The Small Noise Upstairs: Don DeLillo · 8 March 2001

  • The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

• Maximum Assistance from Good Cooking, Good Clothes, Good Drink: Auden’s Shakespeare · 22 February 2001

  • Lectures on Shakespeare by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch

• Playing the Seraphine: Penelope Fitzgerald · 25 January 2001

  • The Means of Escape: Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald

• At Tate Britain: William Blake · 14 December 2000

• Motoring: James Lees-Milne · 30 November 2000

  • Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979-81 by James Lees-Milne, edited by Michael Bloch
  • A Mingled Measure: Diaries 1953-72 by James Lees-Milne
  • Ancient as the Hills: Diaries 1973-74 by James Lees-Milne

• No Tricks: Raymond Carver · 19 October 2000

  • Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Prose by Raymond Carver

• The heart of standing is you cannot fly: Empson and Obscurity · 22 June 2000

  • The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden

• How did we decide what Christ looked like?: How Jesus Got His Face · 27 April 2000

  • The Image of Christ edited by Gabriele Finaldi

• Funny Water: Raban at Sea · 20 January 2000

  • Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban

• Writing about Shakespeare has his say · 9 December 1999

• Complicated Detours: Darwin’s Worms by Adam Phillips · 11 November 1999

  • Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips

• Charging Downhill: Michael Holroyd · 28 October 1999

  • Basil Street Blues: A Family Story by Michael Holroyd

• Bonjour Sagesse: Claire Messud · 30 September 1999

  • The Last Life by Claire Messud

• Out of Sight, out of Mind: A.J. Ayer’s Winning Ways · 15 July 1999

  • A.J. Ayer: A Life by Ben Rogers

• Diary: being a critic · 27 May 1999

• ‘Message from your wife, sir.’ ‘Not now.’ ‘She says: “Have nothing to do with this just man”’: A Pointless Book about Pilate · 15 April 1999

  • Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man by Ann Wroe

• Overflow: John Updike · 21 January 1999

  • Beck at Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike

• Paint Run Amuck: Jack Yeats · 12 November 1998

  • Jack Yeats by Bruce Arnold

• O How Unlike the Father: Bad Father, Good Son · 15 October 1998

  • The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton and Blake by A.D. Nuttall

• First Pitch: Marianne Moore · 16 April 1998

  • The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore edited by Bonnie Costello and Celeste Goodridge et al

• Enemy of the Enemies of Truth: The history of the footnote · 19 March 1998

  • The Footnote: A Curious History by Anthony Grafton

• Toe-Lining · 22 January 1998

  • Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics and the Translation of Empire by Heather James

• Pooka · 16 October 1997

  • Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

• For a Few Dollars More · 18 September 1997

  • Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money by James Buchan

• Gossip · 5 June 1997

  • The Untouchable by John Banville

• Under the Loincloth · 3 April 1997

  • The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg

• What he did · 20 March 1997

  • W.B. Yeats: A Life. Vol. I: The Apprentice Mage by R.F. Foster

• Grandiose Moments · 6 February 1997

  • Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, Vol. II by Max Saunders

• My Man · 2 January 1997

  • Judas: Betrayer or Friend of Jesus by William Klassen

• A Turn of Events · 14 November 1996

  • Reality and Dreams by Muriel Spark

• The cars of the elect will be driverless · 31 October 1996

  • Omens of the Millennium by Harold Bloom

• England’s Troubles · 17 October 1996

  • The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott

• Not His Type · 5 September 1996

  • About Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948-96 by David Sylvester

• Marshy Margins · 1 August 1996

  • The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody

• Floating Hair v. Blue Pencil · 6 June 1996

  • Revision and Romantic Authorship by Zachary Leader

• Cad · 4 April 1996

  • Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude by Ray Monk

• Dis-Grace · 21 March 1996

  • In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

• Improving the Plays · 7 March 1996

  • Shakespeare at Work by John Jones

• The Spree · 22 February 1996

  • The Feminisation of American Culture by Ann Douglas
  • Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the Twenties by Ann Douglas

• A Likely Story · 25 January 1996

  • Howard Hodgkin: Paintings by Michael Auping, John Elderfield and Susan Sontag, edited by Maria Price
  • Howard Hodgkin by Andrew Graham-Dixon

• My Mad Captains · 14 December 1995

• My Mad Captains · 30 November 1995

• Staggering · 2 November 1995

  • Roy Fuller: Writer and Society by Neil Powell

• Dark Fates · 5 October 1995

  • The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

• Even paranoids have enemies · 24 August 1995

  • F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism by Ian MacKillop

• The Guilt Laureate · 6 July 1995

  • The Double Tongue by William Golding

• Gaiety · 8 June 1995

  • Angus Wilson by Margaret Drabble

• Liveried · 11 May 1995

  • John Gay: A Profession of Friendship. A Critical Biography by David Nokes

• Strange, Sublime, Uncanny, Anxious · 22 December 1994

  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

• Made in Heaven · 10 November 1994

  • Frieda Lawrence by Rosie Jackson
  • The Married Man: A Life of D.H. Lawrence by Brenda Maddox
  • Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Bruce Steele
  • Twilight in Italy and Other Essays by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Paul Eggert

• My Mad Captains · 20 October 1994

• Yoked together · 22 September 1994

  • History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine

• Breeding · 21 July 1994

  • The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by Claire Harman
  • Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters edited by Richard Garnett

• With the Aid of a Lorgnette · 28 April 1994

  • The Lure of the Sea by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps
  • The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan

• This Charming Man · 24 February 1994

  • The Collected and Recollected Marc edited by Mark Amory

• Disintegration · 27 January 1994

  • The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry by T.S. Eliot, edited by Ronald Schuchard

• Dangerous Faults · 4 November 1993

  • Shear by Tim Parks

• Big Fish · 9 September 1993

  • Tell Them I’m on my Way by Arnold Goodman
  • Not an Englishman: Conversations with Lord Goodman by David Selbourne

• Cold Feet · 22 July 1993

  • Essays on Renaissance Literature. Vol. I: Donne and the New Philosophy by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden
  • William Empson: The Critical Achievement edited by Chistopher Norris and Nigel Mapp

• Another Mother · 13 May 1993

  • Morgan: A Biography of E.M. Forster by Nicola Beauman

• Hawkesbiz · 11 February 1993

  • Meaning by Shakespeare by Terence Hawkes
  • Shakespeare’s Professional Career by Peter Thomson
  • Shakespeare’s Mouldy Tales by Leah Scragg
  • Reading Shakespeare’s Characters by Christy Desmet
  • Bit Parts in Shakespeare’s Plays by Molly Mahood

• Differences · 22 October 1992

  • The Jew’s Body by Sander Gilman
  • Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend by John Gross
  • Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading by Alan Sinfield

• Wannabee · 8 October 1992

  • Sacred Country by Rose Tremain

• Apocalyptic Opacity · 24 September 1992

  • The End of the Century at the End of the World by C.K. Stead

• A Dingy Start to the Day · 10 September 1992

  • Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist by Dale Salwak
  • London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin by Rob Nixon

• Avoiding Colin · 6 August 1992

  • Moral Literacy: Or how to do the right thing by Colin McGinn
  • The Space Trap by Colin McGinn

• Asyah and Saif · 25 June 1992

  • In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif

• Making a start · 11 June 1992

  • Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel by A.D Nuttall

• Sacrifice · 14 May 1992

  • The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares

• Part and Pasture · 5 December 1991

  • Collected Poems by Henry Reed, edited with an introduction by Jon Stallworthy

• Theory and Truth · 21 November 1991

  • Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars by Geoffrey Hartman
  • Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory by Christopher Norris
  • What’s wrong with Postmodernism: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy by Christopher Norris

• Off the edge · 7 November 1991

  • Musical Elaborations by Edward Said

• Cockaigne · 24 October 1991

  • Orwell: The Authorised Biography by Michael Shelden

• Molly’s Methuselah · 26 September 1991

  • Bernard Shaw. Vol. III: 1918-1950, The Lure of Fantasy by Michael Holroyd

• In reverse · 12 September 1991

  • Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis

• Britten when young · 29 August 1991

  • Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten Vol. I 1923-39, Vol. II 1939-45 edited by Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed

• Elizabeth’s Chamber · 9 May 1991

  • The Infection of Thomas De Quincey: A Psychopathology of Imperialism by John Barrell

• Georgie came, Harry went · 25 April 1991

  • A Passionate Apprentice. The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf, 1897-1909 edited by Mitchell Leaska
  • A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn

• Vérités Bergères · 7 March 1991

  • Lilac and Flag by John Berger

• Is writing bad for you? · 21 February 1991

  • Writer’s Block by Zachary Leader

• After the Woolwich · 7 February 1991

  • Spanner and Pen: Post-War Memoirs by Roy Fuller

• Young Marvin · 24 January 1991

  • A Tenured Professor by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Shade those laurels by Cyril Connolly and Peter Levi

• Hail to the Chief · 10 January 1991

  • Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen Greenblatt

• Our Fault · 11 October 1990

  • Our Age: Portrait of a Generation by Noël Annan

• Saving the Streams of Story · 27 September 1990

  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

• Dangerous Liaisons · 28 June 1990

  • Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd

• Modern Masters · 24 May 1990

  • Where I fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by Peter Conrad
  • May Week was in June by Clive James

• Gloom without Doom · 19 April 1990

  • Letters of Leonard Woolf edited by Frederic Spotts

• Who can blame him? · 5 April 1990

  • Critical Terms for Literary Study edited by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin
  • The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton

• That was another planet · 8 February 1990

  • Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

• Between centuries · 11 January 1990

  • In the Nineties by John Stokes
  • Olivia Shakespear and W.B. Yeats by John Harwood
  • Letters to the New Island by W.B. Yeats, edited by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer
  • The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson: The ‘Little Review’ Correspondence edited by Thomas Scott, Melvin Friedman and Jackson Bryer
  • Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship, 1910-1912 edited by Omar Pound and Robert Spoo
  • Postcards from the End of the World: An Investigation into the Mind of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna by Larry Wolff
  • Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
  • Esprit de Crops: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1916-1925 by Kenneth Silver

• Talk about doing · 26 October 1989

  • Aganist Deconstruction by John Ellis
  • The New Historicism by H. Aram Veeser
  • Rethinking Historicism: Critical Essays in Romantic History by Marjorie Levinson, Marilyn Butler, Jerome McGann and Paul Hamilton
  • Towards a Literature of Knowledge by Jerome McGann
  • The Stoic in Love: Selected Essays on Literature and Ideas by A.D. Nuttall

• Power-Seeker · 12 October 1989

  • Bernard Shaw. Vol. II: The Pursuit of Power by Michael Holroyd

• Talking about Shakespeare · 28 September 1989

  • Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare’s Tragedies by Barbara Everett
  • ‘Timon of Athens’ by A.D. Nuttall

• Yesterday · 27 July 1989

  • The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Post-War Britain by Bryan Appleyard

• Stowaway Woodworm · 22 June 1989

  • A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes

• Southern Virtues · 4 May 1989

  • A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
  • Allen Tate: A Recollection by Walter Sullivan
  • Self-Consciousness by John Updike

• Diary · 20 April 1989

• Paul de Man’s Abyss · 16 March 1989

  • Wartime Journalism, 1939-1943 by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher, Neil Hertz and Thomas Keenan
  • Critical Writings 1953-1978 by Paul de Man, edited by Lindsay Waters
  • Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology by Christopher Norris
  • Reading de Man Reading edited by Lindsay Waters and Wlad Godzich

• Third World · 2 March 1989

• Feast of St Thomas · 29 September 1988

  • Eliot’s New Life by Lyndall Gordon
  • The Letters of T.S. Eliot edited by Valerie Eliot
  • The Poetics of Impersonality by Maud Ellmann
  • T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism by Richard Shusterman
  • ‘The Men of 1914’: T.S. Eliot and Early Modernism by Erik Svarny
  • Eliot, Joyce and Company by Stanley Sultan
  • The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot by Robert Crawford
  • T.S. Eliot: The Poems by Martin Scofield

• Georgian eyes are smiling · 15 September 1988

  • Bernard Shaw. Vol. I: The Search for Love, 1856-1898 by Michael Holroyd
  • Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters. Vol. IV edited by Dan Laurence
  • Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Vol. VIII edited by Stanley Weintraub
  • Shaw’s Sense of History by J.L. Wisenthal
  • Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. III: 1903-1907 edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies
  • Joseph Conrad: ‘Nostromo’ by Ian Watt

• Half-Way up the Hill · 7 July 1988

  • Young Betjeman by Bevis Hillier

• Strait is the gate · 2 June 1988

  • Gorbals Boy at Oxford by Ralph Glasser

• Return to the Totem · 21 April 1988

  • William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett and William Montgomery
  • Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare by Stanley Cavell
  • A History of English Literature by Alastair Fowler

• Sic transit Marshall McLuhan · 17 March 1988

  • Letters of Marshall McLuhan edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan and William Toye

• Out of the jiffybag · 12 November 1987

  • For Love and Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling 1969-1987 by Jonathan Raban
  • Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 by John Carey

• A Little of this Honey · 29 October 1987

  • Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

• Taken aback · 25 June 1987

  • Close Quarters by William Golding

• How do you spell Shakespeare? · 21 May 1987

  • William Shakespeare. The Complete Works: Original-Spelling Edition edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor
  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor

• Big John · 19 March 1987

  • Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess

• Protonymphet · 5 February 1987

  • The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov

• Everett’s English Poets · 22 January 1987

  • Poets in Their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin by Barbara Everett

• Diary · 4 December 1986

• On a Chinese Mountain · 20 November 1986

  • The Royal Beasts by William Empson
  • Essays on Shakespeare by William Empson

• J’Accuzi · 24 July 1986

  • The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America by Martin Amis

• Past-Praiser · 5 June 1986

  • Dear Shadows: Portraits from Memory by John Wain
  • The Oxford Library of English Poetry edited by John Wain

• Modernisms · 22 May 1986

  • Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement by C.K. Stead
  • The Myth of Modernism and 20th-century Literature by Bernard Bergonzi
  • The Innocent Eye: On Modern Literature and the Arts by Roger Shattuck

• Hemingway Hunt · 17 April 1986

  • Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by Peter Griffin
  • The Young Hemingway by Michael Reynolds
  • Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers

• Spender’s Purges · 5 December 1985

  • Collected Poems 1928-1985 by Stephen Spender
  • A Version of the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles by Stephen Spender
  • Journals 1939-1983 by Stephen Spender, edited by John Goldsmith

• Lawrence and Burgess · 19 September 1985

  • Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
  • The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess

• Losers · 5 September 1985

  • Family and Friends by Anita Brookner

• Major and Minor · 6 June 1985

  • The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble

• Westward Ho · 7 February 1985

  • The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Volume III: October 1916 - June 1921 edited by James Boulton and Andrew Robertson
  • Brett: From Bloomsbury to New Mexico by Sean Hignett

• Victorian Vocations · 6 December 1984

  • Frederic Harrison: The Vocations of a Positivist by Martha Vogeler
  • Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian by Noël Annan

• Old Testament Capers · 20 September 1984

  • The Only Problem by Muriel Spark

• Sunday Mornings · 19 July 1984

  • Desmond MacCarthy: The Man and his Writings by David Cecil

• Under threat · 21 June 1984

  • Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition by E.H. Gombrich

• Jogging in the woods at Bellagio · 19 April 1984

  • Small World by David Lodge

• The Purser’s Tale · 5 April 1984

  • Home and Dry: Memoirs III by Roy Fuller

• Superplot · 1 March 1984

  • The Paper Men by William Golding
  • William Golding: A Critical Study by Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Ian Gregor

• Canons · 2 February 1984

  • Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism by James Barr
  • Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth by Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock

• Conrad’s Complaint · 17 November 1983

  • The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Vol. I: 1861-1897 edited by Frederick Karl, edited and translated by Laurence Davies

• Frank Kermode on the horse of the Baskervilles · 6 October 1983

  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

• Last Man of Letters · 15 September 1983

  • The Forties: From the Notebooks and Diaries of the Period by Edmund Wilson and Leon Edel
  • The Portable Edmund Wilson edited by Lewis Dabney
  • To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson

• Broken Knowledge · 4 August 1983

  • The Oxford Book of Aphorisms edited by John Gross
  • The Travellers’ Dictionary of Quotation: Who said what about where? edited by Peter Yapp

• Diary · 21 July 1983

• Diary · 7 July 1983

• Diary · 1 April 1983

• Squalor · 3 February 1983

  • Gissing: A Life in Books by John Halperin
  • George Gissing: Critical Essays edited by Jean-Pierre Michaux

• Intelligent Theory · 7 October 1982

  • Figures of Literary Discourse by Gérard Genette, translated by Alan Sheridan
  • Theories of the Symbol by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Catherine Porter
  • The Breaking of the Vessels by Harold Bloom
  • The Institution of Criticism by Peter Hohendahl
  • Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction by Ann Banfield

• Diary · 7 October 1982

• Diary · 16 September 1982

• Cantles · 17 June 1982

  • A Moving Target by William Golding

• Bringing it home to Uncle Willie · 6 May 1982

  • Joseph Conrad: A Biography by Roger Tennant
  • Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature by George Jefferson
  • The Edwardian Novelists by John Batchelor
  • The Uses of Obscurity: The Fiction of Early Modernism by Allon White

• Knowing · 3 December 1981

  • Bliss by Peter Carey
  • Exotic Pleasures by Peter Carey

• Bumper Book of Death · 1 October 1981

  • The Hour of our Death by Philippe Ariès, translated by Helen Weaver

• Structuralism Domesticated · 20 August 1981

  • Working with Structuralism by David Lodge

• Frank Kermode writes about Granada Television’s version, broadcast on 15 April, of Ford Madox Ford’s ‘The Good Soldier’ · 21 May 1981

• Getting it right · 7 May 1981

  • Interpretation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Literary Criticism by P.D. Juhl

• Posterity · 2 April 1981

  • God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940 by William Gerhardie, Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky
  • Futility by William Gerhardie

• The Essential Orwell · 22 January 1981

  • George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick
  • Class, Culture and Social Change: A New View of the 1930s edited by Frank Gloversmith
  • Culture and Crisis in Britain in the Thirties edited by Jon Clark, Margot Heinemann, David Margolies and Carole Snee

• The Duckworth School of Writers · 20 November 1980

  • Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge

• Tennyson’s Nerves · 6 November 1980

  • Tennyson: The Unqulet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin
  • Thro’ the Vision of the Night: A Study of Source, Evolution and Structure in Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’ by J.M. Gray

• Joseph Conrad’s Flight from Poland · 17 July 1980

  • Conrad in the 19th Century by Ian Watt

• Youth · 19 June 1980

  • The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl

• Remembering the Movement, and researching it · 5 June 1980

  • The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s by Blake Morrison
  • The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945-1980 by D.J. Enright

• Oldham · 22 May 1980

  • The Reign of Sparrows by Roy Fuller
  • Souvenirs by Roy Fuller

• Novels about Adultery · 15 May 1980

  • Love and Marriage by Laurence Lerner
  • Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression by Tony Tanner

• Educating the planet · 20 March 1980

• English Changing · 7 February 1980

  • The State of the Language edited by Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks

• Symbolism, Expressionism, Decadence · 24 January 1980

  • Romantic Roots is Modern Art by August Wiedmann
  • Symbolism by Robert Goldwater
  • Decadence and the 1890s edited by Ian Fletcher

• Frank Kermode on a falling-out of literary friends · 6 December 1979

  • The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 edited by Simon Karlinsky
  • Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute edited by Peter Quennell

• Booker Books · 22 November 1979

• Apocalypse Now and Then · 25 October 1979

  • The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism 1780-1850 by J F C Harrison

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