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Book SynopsisEssays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.
Table of ContentsStephen Spender: The Immigration in Reverse
Edwin Mullins: The Culture Market: Aspects of London and Paris
James B. Meriwether: Introductory Note to Joyce Cary's "The Ball"
Joyce Cary: The Ball (an unpublished story)
Michel Saint-Denis: The English Theatre through Gallic Eyes
Kay Dick: Mr. Pinter and the Fearful Matter
Angus Wilson: My Husband Is Right (fiction)
David Sylvester: On Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture
Helen Haupt: The Musical Scene in England Today
David Webster: The Current State of Opera and Symphony
Ted Hughes: Miss Mambrett and the Wet Cellar (fiction)
Reyner Banham: The World of the Brutalists: Opinion and Intention in British Architecture
J. M. Cohen: On Some New English Translations
Correlli Barnett: The Cracked Trumpet: British Military Memoirs of the Second World War
Malcolm Bradbury: The Intellectual Review in England Today
Andrew Sinclair: To Kill a Loris (fiction)
Martin Green: The Decline of British Humour
John Lehmann: English Letters in the Doldrums? An Editor's View
Giles Dawson: What Happened to Shakespeare's Manuscripts
Gerald Warner Brace: The World of Anthony Trollope
W. H. Auden: The Quest Hero
David Garnett: Some Writers I Have Known: Galsworthy, Forster, Moore, and Wells
Patricia Hutchins: Yeats and Pound in England
Warren Roberts: Introductory Note to Helen Corke's "Portrait of D. H. Lawrence, 1909–10"
Helen Corke: Portrait of D. H. Lawrence, 1909–10
Richard Jones: Introduction to Dylan Thomas' "Poetic Manifesto"
Dylan Thomas: Poetic Manifesto
Kathleen Raine: Edwin Muir: An Appreciation
Eudora Welty: The Vital Imagination of Henry Green
Robert Greacen: The World of C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow: The Snow Papers at Texas
Poems by Alexander Baird, William Burford, Ted Hughes, James Michie, Michael Hamburger, Sylvia Plath, Peter Redgrove, and Stephen Spender
