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Contents

Vol. 10 No. 17 · 29 September 1988

  • Frank Kermode

    • Eliot’s New Life by Lyndall Gordon
    • The Letters of T.S. Eliot edited by Valerie Eliot
    • The Poetics of Impersonality by Maud Ellmann
    • T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism by Richard Shusterman
    • ‘The Men of 1914’: T.S. Eliot and Early Modernism by Erik Svarny
    • Eliot, Joyce and Company by Stanley Sultan
    • The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot by Robert Crawford
    • T.S. Eliot: The Poems by Martin Scofield

  • Letters

  • Stephen Greenblatt

    • ‘Ronald Reagan’, the Movie, and Other Episodes in Political Demonology by Michael Rogin

  • Ted Hughes
    Poem: ‘Take what you want but pay for it’

  • Les Murray
    Poem: ‘Glaze’

  • John Bayley

    • Something to hold onto: Autobiographical Sketches by Richard Cobb

  • John Lanchester

    • Utz by Bruce Chatwin

  • Patrick Parrinder

    • The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
    • The Lost Father by Marina Warner
    • Nice Work by David Lodge

  • James Greene
    Poem: ‘No Man’s Land’

  • Karl Miller

    • Difficulties with girls by Kingsley Amis

  • Denis Hirson

    • Middlepost by Anthony Sher

  • Graham Coster
    The Marabar Caves

  • Vikram Seth
    Forms and Inspirations

  • Andrew Scull

    • Mind Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency by Roy Porter
    • The Past and the Present Revisited by Lawrence Stone
    • Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in 17th-Century England by Lucinda McCray Beier
    • Illness and Self in Society by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, translated by Elborg Forster
    • Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870 by Hilary Marland
    • A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane by Roy Porter

  • George Hyde
    Diary

  • Jonathan Bate

    • The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol. V: Lectures 1808-1819 On Literature edited by R.A. Foakes

  • E.S. Turner

    • The Berlin Blockade by Ann Tusa and John Tusa