
Cannibals and Guillotines
Far from a straightforward propagandist, the caricaturist James Gillray preferred pleasing, or irritating, many different kinds of customers.
James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire
by Tim Clayton
March 9, 2023 issue
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Clare Bucknell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her book about the social history of poetry anthologies, The Treasuries, was published in February. (March 2023)
Cannibals and Guillotines
Far from a straightforward propagandist, the caricaturist James Gillray preferred pleasing, or irritating, many different kinds of customers.
James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire
by Tim Clayton
March 9, 2023 issue
‘So Whimsical a Head’
A new biography of Charles Lamb, the first in over a century, marks an important staging post on the writer’s road back to respectability.
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb
by Eric G. Wilson
August 18, 2022 issue
Wits’ End
Pat Rogers’s new book is salutary because it gives us a modern sense of Alexander Pope, a figure usually portrayed as ultra-traditional.
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham Versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
by Pat Rogers
October 21, 2021 issue
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