CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Douglas Dunn
• James Fox
• Roger Garfitt
• Ian Hamilton
• Seamus Heaney
• Frank Kermode
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Edmund Leach
• Charles Lysaght
• Michael Mason
• Andrew Motion
• Paul Muldoon
• V.S. Pritchett
• Robert Taubman

Contents

• Frank Kermode
  Educating the planet

• Letters
  Kevin Sharpe, G.B.H. Wightman, Neal Ascherson, Robin Maconie, Hans Keller

• Edmund Leach

  • Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain by John Goldthorpe
  • Origins and Destinations: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain by A.H. Halsey

• Andrew Motion
  Poem: ‘The House Through’

• V.S. Pritchett

  • Peacock Displayed: A Satirist in his Context by Marilyn Butler

• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

  • On Historians by J.H. Hexter

• Seamus Heaney

  • The New Cratylus by A.D. Hope

• Douglas Dunn

  • Poems 1962-1978 by Derek Mahon
  • The Echo Gate by Michael Longley
  • Poets from the North of Ireland edited by Frank Ormsby

• Paul Muldoon

  • Visitors Book

• Charles Lysaght

  • Dublin made me by C.S. Andrews
  • Home before Night by Hugh Leonard

• James Fox

  • Fortune’s Hostages by Caroline Moorehead

• Roger Garfitt

  • The Weddings at Nether Powers by Peter Redgrove

• Robert Taubman

  • Puffball by Fay Weldon
  • The Mirror of the Giant by Penelope Shuttle
  • Another Part of the Wood by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Wild Oats by Jacob Epstein
  • In the Secret State by Robert McCrum

• Ian Hamilton

  • Smiley’s People by John le Carré

• Michael Mason writes about the debate in London University on whether Anthony Blunt should keep his emeritus chair