Cover: John Singer Sargent

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Graham Bradshaw
• Brigid Brophy
• Seamus Deane
• Denis Donoghue
• Eric Hobsbawm
• John Horgan
• Elaine Jordan
• John Kerrigan
• Christopher Norris
• R.G. Opie
• Tim Souster
• Stephen Spender
• John Torode
• David Twersky
• Hugo Williams
• Blair Worden
• J.Z. Young

Contents

• Denis Donoghue

  • The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, 1977-1981 edited by M.P. Hederman and R. Kearney, with a preface by Seamus Heaney
  • A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner

• Letters
  Carlos Franqui, Brian Bond, Richard H. Popkin, Paula Neuss, M.J. Fitzgerald

• Seamus Deane

  • The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry edited by Sean Mac Reamoinn

• John Horgan

  • The Irish Labour Party in Transition 1957-82 by Michael Gallagher

• Brigid Brophy

  • Michelangelo by Robert Liebert
  • The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse edited by Stephen Coote

• J.Z. Young

  • The Myths of Human Evolution by Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Europe Transformed 1878-1919 by Norman Stone

• Hugo Williams
  Poem: ‘Aspects of My Case’

• R.G. Opie

  • Britain can work by Ian Gilmour
  • The Use of Public Power by Andrew Shonfield, edited by Zuzanna Shonfield

• David Twersky

  • The Longest War by Jacobo Timerman

• John Torode

  • Back from the Brink: An Apocalyptic Experience by Michael Edwardes

• Blair Worden

  • The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625 by Patrick Collinson
  • Reactions to the English Civil War 1642-1649 edited by John Morrill
  • The World of the Muggletonians by Christopher Hill, Barry Reay and William Lamont
  • The Life of John Milton by A.N. Wilson
  • Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Vol. 8: 1666-1682 edited by Maurice Kelley
  • The Poet’s Time: Politics and Religion in the Works of Andrew Marvell by Warren Chernaik

• John Kerrigan

  • Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance by Michael Hattaway
  • Shakespeare the Director by Ann Pasternak Slater

• Graham Bradshaw

  • The Taming of the Shrew edited by H.J. Oliver
  • Henry V edited by Gary Taylor
  • Troilus and Cressida edited by Kenneth Muir
  • Troilus and Cressida edited by Kenneth Palmer

• Christopher Norris

  • Writing and the Body by Gabriel Josipovici
  • The Definition of Literature and Other Essays by W.W. Robson

• Stephen Spender
  Diary

• Elaine Jordan

  • The Viaduct by David Wheldon
  • Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
  • Milena by Maggie Ross
  • No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
  • Look at me by Anita Brookner
  • Not Not While the Giro and Other Stories by James Kelman

• Tim Souster

  • Beethoven and the Voice of God by Wilfrid Mellers