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Eminent Romantics

Bloomsbury: A House of Lions

by Leon Edel

August 16, 1979 issue

Some Views of Mrs. Thatcher’s Victory

June 28, 1979 issue

Letter

Bruce Page

The Rise of Mrs. Thatcher

August 16, 1979 issue

Poe in the Sky

Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Vol. II: Tales and Sketches, 1831-1842 Vol. III: Tales and Sketches, 1843-1849

edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, with the assistance of Eleanor D. Kewer and Maureen C. Mabbott

Edgar Allan Poe

by David Sinclair

The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe

by Julian Symons

Building Poe Biography

by John Carl Miller

June 28, 1979 issue

Ladies in Distress

Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym

Quartet in Autumn

by Barbara Pym

The Bad Sister

by Emma Tennant

Great Granny Webster

by Caroline Blackwood

November 9, 1978 issue

Families

Picture Palace

by Paul Theroux

The Family

by David Plante

August 17, 1978 issue

Where’s Mama?

June 15, 1978 issue

The Outlaw

The Life of Dylan Thomas

by Paul Ferris

April 6, 1978 issue

Letter

Leo Hamalian

Where’s Mama?

June 15, 1978 issue

Edith Wharton’s Secret

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton

by Cynthia Griffin Wolff

February 23, 1978 issue

Robert Frost Crosses the Missouri

Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing

by Richard Poirier

Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874-1915

by Lawrance Thompson

Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938

by Lawrance Thompson

Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938-1963

by Lawrance Thompson and R.H. Winnick

November 10, 1977 issue

Auden and Vietnam

August 4, 1977 issue

Goodbye to Britain

The Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930s

by Samuel Hynes

June 9, 1977 issue

Letter

John B. Myers

Auden and Vietnam

August 4, 1977 issue

Not a Conspiracy

May 12, 1977 issue

Couples

Marry Me

by John Updike

Torch Song

by Anne Roiphe

A Girl in Winter

by Philip Larkin

February 3, 1977 issue

Orphans and Oracles: What Clara Knew

The Widow's Children

by Paula Fox

Lady Oracle

by Margaret Atwood

October 28, 1976 issue

Reviewing Sylvia Plath

September 30, 1976 issue

Sylvia Plath’s Apotheosis

Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963

by Sylvia Plath, selected and edited by Aurelia Schober Plath

Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness

by Edward Butscher

Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

by Judith Kroll

June 24, 1976 issue

Letter

Olwyn Hughes

Reviewing Sylvia Plath

September 30, 1976 issue

Letter

Mary Folliet

Reviewing Sylvia Plath

September 30, 1976 issue

Letter

Edward Butscher

Reviewing Sylvia Plath

September 30, 1976 issue

Letter

Judith Kroll

Not a Conspiracy

May 12, 1977 issue

In Scorn and Pity

Guerrillas

by V.S. Naipaul

December 11, 1975 issue

Hello to All That

The Great War and Modern Memory

by Paul Fussell

Wilfred Owen

by Jon Stallworthy

Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg 1890-1918

by Joseph Cohen

Isaac Rosenberg: The Half Used Life

by Jean Liddiard

Isaac Rosenberg: Poet and Painter

by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Keith Douglas 1920-1944

by Desmond Graham

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October 16, 1975 issue

Letter

Joseph Cohen

Conspiracy of Silence

November 27, 1975 issue

Letter

Jon Silkin

For Rosenberg

February 19, 1976 issue

The Troubles

October 16, 1975 issue

The Two Stevensons

Robert Louis Stevenson

by James Pope-Hennessy

May 29, 1975 issue