CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Allen
• Hugh Barnes
• Peter Burke
• Wendy Cope
• Malcolm Deas
• Denis Donoghue
• Paul Foot
• Andrew Gurr
• Tony Harrison
• Dan Jacobson
• Clive James
• D.A.N. Jones
• John Kerrigan
• John Maynard Smith
• Patrick Parrinder
• Claude Rawson
• J.R. Shackleton
• C.H. Sisson
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• Paul Foot
  Westland Ho

• Letters
  Nicolas Walter, Eric Griffiths, Raman Selden, C.K. Stead, John May, Colin Smith, Andrew Motion, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘Following Pine’

• J.R. Shackleton
  The Retreat from Monetarism

• Hugh Barnes

  • Stroke Counterstroke by William Camp
  • Redhill Rococo by Shena Mackay
  • Striker by Michael Irwin

• John Maynard Smith

  • The Dialectical Biologist by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin

• David Allen

  • New Images of the Natural in France: A study in European Cultural History 1750-1800 by D.G. Charlton
  • Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account 1760-1840 by Barbara Maria Stafford

• Malcolm Deas

  • Holy Smoke by G. Cabrera Infante
  • Tobacco on the Periphery. A Case Study in Cuban Labour History: 1860-1958 by Jean Stubbs

• Denis Donoghue writes about the Age of Rawson, and Rogers

  • Literature and Popular Culture in 18th-Century England by Pat Rogers
  • Eighteenth-Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole by Pat Rogers
  • Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in 18th-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper by Claude Rawson
  • Jonathan Swift edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley

• Clive James
  Poem: ‘A Valediction for Philip Larkin’

• Claude Rawson

  • The Name of Action: Critical Essays by John Fraser

• E.S. Turner

  • Travels with a Superior Person by Lord Curzon, edited by Peter King
  • The Ladies of Castlebrae by A. Whigham Price
  • Lizzie: A Victorian Lady’s Amazon Adventure by Tony Morrison, Anne Brown and Ann Rose
  • Miss Fane in India edited by John Pemble
  • Explorers Extraordinary by John Keay
  • A Visit to Germany, Italy and Malta 1840-41 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Grace Thornton
  • The Irish Sketch-Book 1842 by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Mr Rowlandson’s England by Robert Southey, edited by John Steel

• Patrick Parrinder

  • An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates
  • Ellen by Ita Daly

• Peter Burke

  • The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence
  • Chine et Christianisme: Action et Réaction by Jacques Gernet

• Wendy Cope
  Poem: ‘My Lover’

• Dan Jacobson
  The Circuit

• Andrew Gurr

  • Forms of Attention by Frank Kermode
  • Shakespeare: A Writer’s Progress by Philip Edwards
  • Shakespeare’s Lost Play: ‘Edmund Ironside’ edited by Eric Sams
  • Such is my love: A Study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Joseph Pequigney
  • Shakespeare Survey 38: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production edited by Stanley Wells
  • The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama by Catherine Belsey

• John Kerrigan
  Diary

• C.H. Sisson

  • The Queen has been pleased: The British Honours System at Work by John Walker

• D.A.N. Jones

  • Jackdaw Cake: ‘An Autobiography’ by Norman Lewis