Cover: Cecil Beaton

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Peter Burke
• John Charap
• Barbara Everett
• Geoffrey Hawthorn
• Alan Hollinghurst
• Vijay Joshi
• Keith Kyle
• Norman Malcolm
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Nevill Mott
• Nicholas Penny
• Christopher Ricks
• Lord Roberthall
• M.A. Screech
• Jon Stallworthy
• Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
• Patrick Wormald

Contents

• Barbara Everett

  • W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
  • Early Auden by Edward Mendelson

• Letters
  Marilyn Butler, Neal Ascherson, Suzie Fleming, Kate Graham, A.J.P. Taylor, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Jeremy Franks, Lynne Fredlund

• Christopher Ricks

  • Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 1760-1830 by Marilyn Butler

• Jon Stallworthy
  Poem: ‘The Anzac Sonata’

• Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
  Prospects for Higher Education

• Lord Roberthall, economic adviser to Macmillan’s government, looks at the failure of monetarism

• Keith Kyle
  Believing in the Alliance

• Vijay Joshi

  • Poverty and Famines by Amartya Sen

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980 by Kenneth O. Morgan

• Geoffrey Hawthorn

  • Hegel contra Sociology by Gillian Rose
  • The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School by George Friedman
  • Metacritique by Garbis Kortian, translated by John Raffan
  • The Idea of a Critical Theory by Raymond Geuss
  • The Politics of Social Theory by Russell Keat
  • Critical Hermeneutics by John Thompson
  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences by Paul Ricoeur, translated by John Thompson

• Norman Malcolm

  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections edited by Rush Rhees

• John Charap

  • The Physicists: A Generation that Changed the World by C.P. Snow

• Nevill Mott

  • James Clerk Maxwell: A Biography by Ivan Tolstoy

• Alan Hollinghurst

  • Gemini by Michel Tournier, translated by Anne Carter
  • The Death of Men by Allan Massie
  • Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

• Nicholas Penny

  • Moments of Vision by Kenneth Clark

• Patrick Wormald

  • Roman Britain by Peter Salway
  • Roman Britain by Malcolm Tood

• M.A. Screech

  • Masters of the Reformation: The Emergence of a New Intellectual Life in Europe by Heiko Augustinus Oberman, translated by Dennis Martin
  • Montaigne by Peter Burke

• Peter Burke

  • The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History by Richard Goldthwaite
  • Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard Trexler
  • Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice by Edward Muir
  • Venice: The Greatness and the Fall by John Julius Norwich
  • Ruskin and Venice edited by Jeanne Clegg
  • The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin and Jan Morris