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June 18, 1970 • Volume 14, Number 12

LETTERS

Contributors

John Bayley is a critic and novelist. His books include Elegy for Iris and The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature.

Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984) was a British historian.

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at MIT.

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. His works include The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and The American Classics.

James Merrill (1926–1995) was an American poet whose major work The Changing Light at Sandover describes a series of spirit communications conducted over many years. He won the National Book Award from his collections Nights and Days and Mirabell: Books of Number.

Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian. He taught British history at Oxford and Princeton.

John Weightman (1915–2004) was a critic and literary scholar. After working as a translator and announcer for the BBC French service, Weightman turned to the study of French literature. He taught at King’s College London and the University of London. His books include The Concept of the Avant-Gardeand The Cat Sat on the Mat: Language and the Absurd.

Richard Wilbur’s book Mayflies: New Poems and Translations will be published in April. (November 2000)