Cover: Tim Richmond

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Barrell
• Paul Delany
• Alan Dixon
• Vicki Feaver
• Frank Kermode
• Ray Monk
• Patrick Parrinder
• Anthony Quinn
• Claude Rawson
• David Sylvester
• E.S. Turner
• Nicholas Wade
• Bernard Williams
• Blair Worden

Contents

• Frank Kermode

  • Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten Vol. I 1923-39, Vol. II 1939-45 edited by Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed

• Letters
  Robert Allen, Donat Gallagher, Basil Davidson, Lawrence Beyer, Claude Rawson, Peter Lamarque, Lucretia Stewart, G.M. Underwood

• David Sylvester
  Constable’s Weather

• Alan Dixon
  Two Poems

• Bernard Williams
  Saint-Just’s Illusion – Interpretation and the Powers of Philosophy

• Vicki Feaver
  Poem: ‘The Crack’

• Ray Monk

  • Russell’s Idealist Apprenticeship by Nicholas Griffin
  • Philosophical Papers by F.P. Ramsey, edited by D.H. Mellor
  • The Philosophy of F.P. Ramsey by Nils-Eric Sahlin

• Blair Worden

  • The Causes of the English Civil War by Conrad Russell
  • The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637-1642 by Conrad Russell

• Claude Rawson

  • A Voyage to Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson, edited by Joel Gold
  • Rasselas, and Other Tales by Samuel Johnson, edited by Gwin Kolb
  • A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) by Samuel Johnson
  • The Making of Johnson’s Dictionary, 1746-1773 by Allen Reddick
  • Samuel Johnson’s Attitude to the Arts by Morris Brownell
  • Johnson’s Shakespeare by G.F. Parker

• Patrick Parrinder

  • A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
  • Underwood and After by Ronald Frame
  • Lemprière’s Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk

• Anthony Quinn

  • Varying Degrees of Hopelessness by Lucy Ellmann
  • Slide by James Buchan
  • Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

• Nicholas Wade

  • Too hot to handle by Frank Close

• John Barrell
  Diary

• Paul Delany

  • The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

• E.S. Turner

  • The Bachelor Duke: William Spencer Cavendish, Sixth Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858 by James Lees-Milne