Hard to find, complete issue of the
Times Literary Supplement (London) for
19 July 1974. Nice one!
See photo #2 for
complete contents.
Oversize, 19 pages.
The weekly was publishing reviews at this date mostly unsigned, although there were lots of exceptions, as you will see below. .
Some highlights I find include:
The distinguished English historian Michael Howard opens this number with an essay in review of The Devil and John Foster Dulles by Townsend Hoopes.
A review of John Le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Another review of Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman.
A review of new volumes of poetry by Erica Jong (her second book, Half-Lives); of Jon Silkin's The Principle of Water; and, of two works by Anne Stevenson, Travelling Behind Glass and Correspondences.
New poems in this number by Douglas Dunn, Vernon Scannell (the first-rate Wicked Maiden), and John Fuller.
F.S.L. Lyons reviews the John Montague-edited Faber Book of Irish Verse.
Richard Clogg reviews three new works related to the governing history of Greece, headed "The Greek Labyrinth." See photo #2 for titles.
A review of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More and another of his poetry.