Peter Clarke

Edward Heath: A Biography by John Campbell. Cape, 876 pp., £20, July 1993, 0 224 02482 5

Letters

John Lowenthal, John Bayley, Jeremy James, Nicholas Young, Stan Smith, Robert Cawley, Angus Calder, Peter Dews, Miles Burrows, Kevin Laffan, Mark Philp

John Sutherland

The British Library: For Scholarship, Research and Innovation: Strategic Objectives for the Year 2000  British Library, 39 pp., £5, June 1993, 0 7123 0321 9
The Library of the British Museum: Retrospective Essays on the Department of Printed Books edited by P.R. Harris. British Library, 305 pp., £35, June 1993, 0 7123 0242 5

R.W. Johnson

When that great day comes

Simon Armitage

Three Poems

P.N. Furbank

The Lives of Michel Foucault by David Macey. Hutchinson, 599 pp., £20, June 1993, 0 09 175344 9
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. HarperCollins, 491 pp., £18, June 1993, 0 00 255267 1

Alistair Elliot

Two Poems

Peter Campbell

The House of Gold by Richard Goy. Cambridge, 304 pp., £60, January 1993, 0 521 40513 0
The Palace of the Sun by Robert Berger. Pennsylvania State, 232 pp., £55, April 1993, 0 271 00847 4

Frank Kermode

Essays on Renaissance Literature. Vol. I: Donne and the New Philosophy by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden. Cambridge, 296 pp., £35, March 1993, 0 521 44043 2
William Empson: The Critical Achievement edited by Chistopher Norris and Nigel Mapp. Cambridge, 319 pp., £35, March 1993, 0 521 35386 6

Julian Symons

Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare by Theresa Whistler. Duckworth, 478 pp., £25, May 1993, 9780715624302

John Bayley

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales edited by Alison Luire. Oxford, 455 pp., £17.95, May 1993, 0 19 214218 6
The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter. Virago, 230 pp., £7.99, July 1993, 1 85381 616 7

Donald Davie

Collected Poems by Patricia Beer. Carcanet, 216 pp., £18.95, July 1990, 9780856357886
Friend of Heraclitus by Patricia Beer. Carcanet, 59 pp., £6.95, March 1993, 1 85754 026 3

Elisa Segrave

Diary: Revved Up on Solpadeine

Lynn Hunt

Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking by David Bromwich. Yale, 296 pp., £20, October 1992, 0 300 05702 4
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts can Revitalise American Education by Gerald Graff. Norton, 224 pp., £13.95, March 1993, 0 393 03424 0

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