Cover: Christopher Killip

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Susannah Amoore
• Alan Brien
• G.A. Cohen
• Alex Comfort
• Owen Dudley Edwards
• D.J. Enright
• Ted Hughes
• Peter Jenkins
• Frank Kermode
• Laurence Lerner
• Thomas McKeown
• Richard Mayne
• Karl Miller
• Caroline Moorehead
• Kenneth O. Morgan
• Adam Phillips
• Christopher Reid
• John Sutherland
• Robert Taubman
• E.S. Turner
• Keith Walker

Contents

• Frank Kermode

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

• Letters
  Peter Redgrove, Mary McCarthy, Henry Schwarzschild

• Karl Miller
  London Review of Books: Separate Publication

• Peter Jenkins

  • The Seventies by Christopher Booker
  • The Seventies by Norman Shrapnel

• Alex Comfort

  • Sex and Fantasy: Patterns of Male and Female Development by Robert May

• Alan Brien

  • Breasts by Daphna Ayalah and Isaac Weinstock

• Ted Hughes
  Poem: ‘Nightjar’

• Adam Phillips
  Poem: ‘Intruder’

• John Sutherland

  • Book Society by Graham Watson
  • The Publishers Association Annual Report 1979-80
  • Private Presses and Publishing in England since 1945 by H.E. Bellamy

• Owen Dudley Edwards

  • Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760-1801 by R.B. McDowell

• Thomas McKeown

  • Health, Medicine and Mortality in the 16th Century edited by Charles Webster

• Kenneth O. Morgan

  • Tariff Reform in British Politics by Alan Sykes

• G.A. Cohen

  • Marxism and Class Theory: A Bourgeois Critique by Frank Parkin
  • Karl Marx edited by Tom Bottomore

• Keith Walker

  • ‘A heart for every fate’: Byron’s Letters and Journals, Vol. 10, 1822-1823 edited by Leslie Marchand

• D.J. Enright is soon to bring out his ‘Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945-1980’. Here is the substance of his introductory statement.

• Susannah Amoore
  Two Poems

• Robert Taubman

  • The Echo Chamber by Gabriel Josipovici
  • Birthstone by D.M. Thomas
  • Kingdom Come by Melvyn Bragg
  • A Gentle Occupation by Dirk Bogarde
  • Innocent Blood by P.D. James

• Caroline Moorehead

  • Lover on the Nile by Richard Hall
  • Nellie: Letters from Africa by Elspeth Huxley
  • Black Country Girl in Red China by Esther Cheo Ying

• Laurence Lerner
  Poem: ‘Kaspar Hauser’

• Richard Mayne

  • Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: The Major Film-Makers edited by Richard Roud
  • The Dream that Kicks: The Prehistory and Early Years of Cinema in Britain by Michael Chanan

• Christopher Reid

  • Renga by Octavio Paz, Jacques Roubaud, Edoardo Sanguineti and Charles Tomlinson
  • Kites in Spring by John Hewitt
  • The Island Normal by Brian Jones
  • New Poetry 5 edited by Peter Redgrove and Jon Silkin

• E.S. Turner

  • The Henry Root Letters