December 1979 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Reviews Reviews Stan Smith The Dodo and the Nightingale Grave Gossip By Brian Patten LR Laurence Lerner After Donne Collected Poems By F T Prince A Martian Sends a Postcard Home By Craig Raine LR Philip Thody Wodehouse and the Critics P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography By Joseph Connolly LR Arthur Marshall Sugar Plums Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926-1974 By Richard Buckle (ed) LR
Laurence Lerner After Donne Collected Poems By F T Prince A Martian Sends a Postcard Home By Craig Raine LR
Philip Thody Wodehouse and the Critics P. G. Wodehouse, An Illustrated Biography By Joseph Connolly LR
Arthur Marshall Sugar Plums Self Portrait with Friends. The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926-1974 By Richard Buckle (ed) LR
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