nglish Volume 41 1992 Edited by Micheei Baron and Peter Barry the Journal of the English Association English, which is the yournal of the English Association, appears three ines a year. Subscription for 1993 cosis £40.00 or $90.00. Membership of the Association is available to individuals and instituuions. Members are entitled to discounts on the Association’s other regular publications Essays and Studics and The Year's Work in English Studies Details are available trom the Secretary, Engiish Association, The Vicarage. Priory Gardens. London W4 ITT orrespondenes and contributions F ENQUS, CXCEP. TevVIey bhey e seni tr o eoe tMectvere bBoa rcornye , Depawrr-atrmteenanctee nt corfi I Enghsshc,h , |L a Saint7e .U ni Ollfie..s The Avenue, Southampton SQ? SHB. Material submitted cannot retumeu unless itis accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope international reply coupons to the ampropriate value. Contributors can nommally expect replies within three months. Books for review should be sent io Michael Baron, Departinent Engh .h, Birkbeck Coilege. Maiet Sireei. London WCIE 7HXN enquiries shoutd be addressed the S CCC Copyright © The English Association 19% ISSN 00: 3-8215 CONTENTS ESSAYS Booth. Roy, Meddling with Awl: reading Decker’s The Shoemaker’ Holiday, 193 Cutting, Andrew, ‘Henry James and “Vulgarity”’. 113 a Gervais, David. ‘Literary Criticism and the Literary Student’, 149 Gilbert. Pamela K, ‘““A Horrid Game”: Woman as Social Entity Christina Rossetti’s Prose’, i Gregson, fan, “But Who Js Speaking?” “Novelisation™ in the Poetry Craig Raine’, 127 Harris, Jon, British Poetry and the Holocaust, 213 House, lan W O, “IT know thee well enough”: The Two Plots of Ki/ Lear’, 97 Newton, K.M., Literary Theory and the Rushdie Affair, 235 Rayan, Krishna, Resistance in Reading, 249 Sheppard, Robert, ‘De-Anglicising the Midlands: The European Contex! of Roy Fisher’s City’, 49 Williams, David G, ‘The Influence of W H Auden oa the work of Peter Porter’, 25 POEMS B. W. Beynon, 259, 284 Heather Buck, 248 lan Caws, 162 Paul Gardner, 24 Katherine Graham, 48 lan Gregson, 254 James Lowell, 71, 126 Ralph Piie, 164 Gordon Symes, !48 John Powell Ward, 212, 234 BOOKS REVIEWED Bate, Jonathan, Romantic Ecology. Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (Michael Baron), 78 Chittick, Kathryn, Dickens and the 1830s (Michael Slater), 83 Eco, Umberto, /nterpretation and Overinterpretation (David Seed), 267 Gray, Piers, Marginal Men: Edward Thomas, lvor Gurney, J R Ackerle (Martin Taylor), 277 Hill. Geoffrey, The Enemy's Country (Andrew Michael Roberts). 261 Lennard, John, Burt | Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (Raiph Pite), 175 McMullen, Gordon, and Jonathan Hope (ed), The Politics of Tragicomedy (Navina Hooker), 271 Millard, Kenneth, Edwardian Poetry (Martin Scofield), 168 Rees, Joan, Sir Philip Sidney and Arcadia (Navina Hooker), 271 Riede, David G, Oracles and Hierophants: Constructions of Romantic Authority (Ralph Pite), 175 Rotinson, Peter, /n the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets (Andrew Roberts), 261 Ruthven. K K, Ezra Pound as Literary Critic (Brendan Jackson), 87 Smith, A J, Metaphysical Wit (Roy J Booth), 165 Yeazell, Ruth Bernard, Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the Enzlish Novel (Robina Barson), 73 REVIEWERS Michael Baron, 78 Robina Barson, 73 Roy J Booth, 165 Navina Hooker, 271 Brendan Jackson, 87 Ralph Pite, 175 Andrew Michael Roberts, 20: Martin Scofield, 168 David Seed, 267 Michael Slater, 83 Martin Tayior, 277 PHE EDITORIAL MISCELLANY 94, 189, 285