Frank Kermode
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Frank Kermode lives in Cambridge, England. His most recent book is The Age of Shakespeare. (October 2008)
From the Review
October 9, 2008: You Can't Take It with You
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
May 1, 2008: Ezra Conquers London
Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work, Volume 1: The Young Genius, 1885–1920 by A. David Moody
February 14, 2008: Infallible Since When? (letter)
December 6, 2007: Wars Over the Printed Word
Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents by James Simpson
June 14, 2007: The Sharpest Thorn
Orwell in Tribune: "As I Please" and Other Writings 1943–7 compiled and edited by Paul Anderson
June 22, 2006: Lives of Dr. Johnson
Johnson on the English Language: The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume XVIII edited by Gwin J. Kolb and Robert Demaria Jr.
Samuel Johnson's Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of the English Language: A Facsimile Edition edited by Allen Reddick
Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott
Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking, 1709–1791 by Freya Johnston
The Lives of the Poets by Samuel Johnson, edited by Roger Lonsdale
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary by Henry Hitchings
Loving Dr. Johnson by Helen Deutsch
December 1, 2005: Arguing with God
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine by Harold Bloom
The Life of David by Robert Pinsky
November 17, 2005: Translating the Bible (letter)
October 20, 2005: A New Story of Stories
The Five Books of Moses translated and with commentary by Robert Alter
March 24, 2005: The King of Crit
The Power of Delight: Essays 1962–2002 by John Bayley, selected by Leo Carey
July 5, 2001: Art Among the Ruins
Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare After Theory by David Scott Kastan
April 12, 2001: But Could She Cook?
Elizabeth I: Collected Works edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose
July 20, 2000: The Geat of Geats
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by R.M. Liuzza
April 23, 1998: The Midrash Mishmash
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
May 15, 1997: Advertisement for Himself
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
February 6, 1997: The World Turned Upside Down
The Dictionary of Global Culture edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
November 28, 1996: Getting Even
Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon by John Kerrigan
September 19, 1996: The Pleasure of the Text
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World by David Denby
May 23, 1996: The Wild Goose Chase
The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco
November 16, 1995: Howl
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
October 19, 1995: The Wonder of Mozart
Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon
Mozart and Posterity by Gernot Gruber, translated by K.S. Furness
Mozart: Portrait of a Genius by Norbert Elias, translated by Edmund Jephcott
On Mozart edited by James M. Morris
Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School, 1740–1780 by Daniel Heartz
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler, translated by J. Bradford Robinson
February 16, 1995: Sound and Fury
Witches & Jesuits: Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' by Garry Wills
March 24, 1994: The Old New Age
The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution by Christopher Hill
The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the English Revolution by Jerome Friedman
September 24, 1992: 'Forms of Nationhood' (letter)
June 25, 1992: The High Cost of New History
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England by Richard Helgerson
April 25, 1985: Obsessed with Obsession
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
February 14, 1985: A Passage to Cambridge (letter)
October 25, 1984: What Nathalie Knew
Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute, translated by Barbara Wright. in consultation with the author
July 21, 1983: Reading Shakespeare (letter)
June 16, 1983: Shakespeare & Co. (letter)
April 28, 1983: Shakespeare for the Eighties
Comic Women, Tragic Men: A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare by Linda Bamber
Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Lisa Jardine
Shakespeare the Director by Ann Pasternak Slater
The Artist and Society in Shakespeare's England: The Collected Papers of Muriel Bradbrook, Volume I by M.C. Bradbrook
The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Robert Giroux
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth Palmer
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, edited by Kenneth Muir
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, edited by H.J. Oliver
Henry V by William Shakespeare, edited by Gary Taylor
October 21, 1982: Sacred Space
The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse chosen and edited by Donald Davie
The Poems of William Cowper edited by John D. Baird, edited by Charles Ryskamp
The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp
November 6, 1980: Alien Sages
Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag
January 24, 1980: The Flying University (letter)
September 27, 1979: Disappointment (letter)
August 16, 1979: 'Love and Do as You Please'
Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess
The Living End by Stanley Elkin
July 19, 1979: The Lattimore Version
The Four Gospels and the Revelation translated by Richmond Lattimore
June 28, 1979: Down There on a Visit
Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet by Richard Gilman
February 8, 1979: Under the Sheet (letter)
December 21, 1978: Yes, Santa, There Is a Virginia
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924 edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie
The Unknown Virginia Woolf by Roger Poole
Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Phyllis Rose
December 21, 1978: In Quest of Jesus (letter)
December 7, 1978: Jesus and Adam (letter)
November 9, 1978: St. Mark on Broadway
St. Mark's Gospel a solo performance by Alec McCowen
October 26, 1978: The Quest for the Magical Jesus
Jesus the Magician by Morton Smith
August 17, 1978: A Modern Master
Selected Stories by V.S. Pritchett
June 29, 1978: Deciphering the Big Book
The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke by Raymond E. Brown
A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from the Bible with an Essay on the Origins and Life of Narrative by Reynolds Price
The Early Versions of the New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger
April 6, 1978: Beethoven at Home
Beethoven by Maynard Solomon
June 23, 1977: Sticking to the Union (letter)
April 28, 1977: No Wonder (letter)
March 17, 1977: Laboring Fabians
The Fabians by Norman MacKenzie, by Jeanne MacKenzie
October 14, 1976: A Successful Alchemist
The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated in collaboration with the author by Grace Frick
July 15, 1976: Coming Up for Air
Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Jill by Philip Larkin
April 29, 1976: Fighting Freud
Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method by Frederick Crews
November 27, 1975: Working Up Work
Work and Play: Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure by Alasdair Clayre
May 1, 1975: The Model of a Modern Modernist
The Making of Modern Drama by Richard Gilman
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke, translated by Michael Roloff
Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story by Peter Handke, translated by Ralph Manheim
The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld by Peter Handke, translated and with a postscript by Michael Roloff
February 6, 1975: A Disagreement (letter)
October 31, 1974: Buyers' Market
George Gissing: The Born Exile by Gillian Tindall
Arnold Bennett: A Biography by Margaret Drabble
Arnold Bennett: The Evening Standard Years edited with an introduction by Andrew Mylett
May 30, 1974: Grandeur and Filth
The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by H.J. Dyos, edited by Michael Wolff
The Victorian Working Class: Selections from the Morning Chronicle Service (Portland, Oregon) edited and introduced by P.E. Razzell, by R.W. Wainwright
The Real Foundations: Literature and Social Change by David Craig
The Victorians by the Sea edited by Howard Grey, edited by Graham Stuart
Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class by Steven Marcus
May 2, 1974: Joyce Center (letter)
May 17, 1973: Crisis Critic
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith
January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)
May 4, 1972: Shakespeare in the Movies
Antony and Cleopatra (to be released in the United States later this year) directed by Charlton Heston
Macbeth directed by Roman Polanski
King Lear directed by Peter Brook
November 5, 1970: A New Era in Shakespeare Criticism?
Johnson on Shakespeare edited by Arthur Sherbo, with an Introduction by Bertrand H. Bronson
Shakespearian and other Studies by F.P. Wilson, edited by Helen Gardner
Shakespeare the Craftsman by M.C. Bradbrook
Shakespeare: The Pattern in his Carpet by Francis Fergusson
The Tragic Engagement: A Study of Shakespeare's Classical Tragedies by Judah Stampfer
The Tiger's Heart: Eight Essays on Shakespeare by Herbert Howarth
Motiveless Malignity by Louis Auchincloss
Macbeth and the Players by Dennis Bartholomeusz
The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development by Julian Markels
Iago: Some Approaches to the Illusion of his Motivation by Stanley Edgar Hyman
Reinterpretations of Elizabethan Drama edited by Norman Rabkin
An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Stephen Booth
Shakespeare's Verbal Art in Th'Expence of Spirit by Roman Jakobson, by Lawrence G. Jones
August 13, 1970: Critical List
Literature and the Sixth Sense by Philip Rahv
The Writing on the Wall by Mary McCarthy
December 18, 1969: The Incomparable Benjamin
Illuminations. Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin, edited and with an Introduction by Hannah Arendt, translated by Harry Zohn
January 30, 1969: The IBM Shakespeare
A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare by Marvin Spevack
January 2, 1969: More Xenia Poems (poem)
December 19, 1968: Xenia (1964–1966) (poem)
May 23, 1968: Easy, Easy
The Liverpool Scene edited by Edward Lucie-Smith
The Incredible New Liverpool Scene recorded live along the Mersey Beat, written and performed by Adrian Henri, by Roger McGough
March 14, 1968: Free Fall
The Presence of the Word by Walter J. Ong S.J.
December 21, 1967: Hamlet Brainwashed (letter)
October 26, 1967: Old Modern
On Modernism: The Prospects for Literature and Freedom by Louis Kampf
New American Review, No. 1 edited by Theodore Solotaroff
October 12, 1967: Fiedler Defense Fund (letter)
October 12, 1967: Reading Shakespeare's Mind
Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser
Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearian Tragedy by Northrop Frye
December 15, 1966: The Viennese Muses
The Letters of Mozart and His Family edited by Emily Anderson, Second edition prepared by A. Hyatt King, by Monica Carolan
May 12, 1966: The Enduring Lear
King Lear in Our Time by Maynard Mack
Conceptions of Shakespeare by Alfred Harbage
October 28, 1965: Life and Death of the Novel
Henry Fielding: Mask and Feast by Andrew Wright
The True Patriot by Henry Fielding, edited by Miriam Austin Locke
Radical Dr. Smollett by Donald Bruce
Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development by A. Walton Litz
September 16, 1965: One Man's Vedanta (letter)
June 17, 1965: The Old Amalaki
Ramakrishna and His Disciples by Christopher Isherwood
April 22, 1965: Deep Frye
A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance by Northrop Frye
January 28, 1965: Time of Your Life
Man and Time by J.B. Priestley
December 3, 1964: The Man in the Closet
The Life of Drama by Eric Bentley
September 24, 1964: The Shakespearian Rag
Shakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott, Translated from the Polish by Boleslaw Taborski, with an Introduction by Martin Esslin
August 20, 1964: T V Dinner
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
June 25, 1964: Lear at Lincoln Center
June 11, 1964: Hemingway's Last Novel
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
April 30, 1964: The Case for William Golding
The Spire by William Golding
March 19, 1964: Beckett Country
How it is by Samuel Beckett
March 5, 1964: Isadora
Isadora Duncan: Her Life, Her Art, Her Legacy by Walter Terry
February 20, 1964: What Is Art?
Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art by E.H. Gombrich
January 9, 1964: Yonder Shakespeare, Who Is He?
William Shakespeare by A.I. Rowse
Shakespeare by Peter Quennell
The Sonnets of Shakespeare by J. Dover Wilson
December 12, 1963: Colette
The Blue Lantern by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse
Books by Frank Kermode
Shakespeare's Language (2000)
Cleanth Brooks and the Art of Reading Poetry (1999)
Not Entitled: A Memoir (1995)
The Uses of Error (1991)
Poetry, Narrative, History (1990)
An Appetite for Poetry (1989)
History and Value: The Clarendon Lectures and the Northcliffe Lectures, 1987 (1988)
Forms of Attention (1985)
The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction (1983)
Wallace Stevens (1979)
The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (1979)
The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change (1975)
How We Read Novels: [lecture] Delivered at the University on Friday, 21 Arch, 1975 (1975)
English Renaissance Literature: Introductory Lectures (1974)
D. H. Lawrence (1973)
Lawrence (1973)
Novel and Narrative; The Twenty-Fourth W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture Delivered in the University of Glasgow 9th March, 1972 (1972)
English Pastoral Poetry, from the Beginnings to Marvell (1972)
Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays (1971)
Continuities (1968)
The Sense of an Ending; Studies in the Theory of Fiction (1967)
Romantic Image (1957)