Cover: Cecil Beaton

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Gabriele Annan
• Neal Ascherson
• Brigid Brophy
• Peter Burke
• Alan Coren
• D.J. Enright
• Fred Halliday
• Roy Harris
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Christopher Hill
• Anthony Holden
• Graham Hough
• Frank Kermode
• David Lodge
• Alasdair MacIntyre
• Brenda Maddox
• Claude Rawson
• Robert Taubman
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• Christopher Hill

  • The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a 16th-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi

• Frank Kermode

  • 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

• Letters
  Thomas Hinde, Christopher Ricks, Lawrence Airey, John Bayley, Michael Dummett, Hans Keller

• D.J. Enright
  Poem: ‘Burden’

• Brigid Brophy

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens and Leon Garfield

• Robert Taubman

  • Rites of Passage by William Golding

• David Lodge

  • Ways of Escape by Graham Greene

• Anthony Holden

  • The United States in the 1980s edited by Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka

• Alan Coren

  • Nixon: A Study in Extremes of Fortune by Lord Longford

• Alasdair MacIntyre

  • Inventing America: Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Authority by Richard Sennett

• Neal Ascherson

  • The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton
  • Counting Our Blessings by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Peregrinations by Peregrine Worsthorne

• Fred Halliday

  • Arabia, the Gulf and the West by J.B. Kelly

• Hugo Williams

  • States of Desire: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White

• Claude Rawson

  • The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse by Geoffrey Grigson

• Graham Hough

  • The Sum of Things by Olivia Manning
  • The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
  • The Sooting Party by Isabel Colegate
  • An Ancient Castle by Robert Graves

• Roy Harris

  • Studies in English Linguistics for Randolph Quirk edited by Sidney Greenbaum and Jan Svartvik

• Peter Burke

  • Politics in Renaissance Venice by Robert Finlay

• Brenda Maddox

  • Garbo by Alexander Walker

• Gabriele Annan

  • Maria: Beyond the Callas Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos