Books Received

Book Reviews Volume 32:4, 1989 equally valid pseudospecificities seems to have been dictated by his ear. In the manuscripts he had tried out 'five and forty,' equivalent in tactical meanings but not in sound. His final choice bends a consonantal pattern around the hanging pause of the Yeatsian line break in fine but constant tension" (193). Contemporary critics seem at times so nihilistic, so narcissistic, so willfully perverse that one can only be grateful that there remain good and careful readers and thinkers and writers like Richardson in the profession. People like him help the rest of us find our way. Terry L. Meyers College of William and Mary • Books Received · Altick, Richard D. Writers, Readers and Occasions: Selected Essays on Victorian Literature and Life. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. $30.00 Bloom, Harold, ed. The Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present. Early Twentieth Century. Vol. 8. New York: Chelsea House, 1989. $60.00 D'Ambrosio, Vinnie-Marie. Eliot Possessed: T. S. Eliot and FitzGerald's 'Rubáiyát'. New York: New York University Press, 1989. $30.00 Draper, R. P., ed. The Literature of Region and Nation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. $39.95 Edwards, P. D., I. G. Sibley, and Margaret Versteeg. Indexes to Fiction in 'Belgravia'. University of Queensland: Victorian Fiction Research Guides XIV, 1989. $8.00 Feltes, N. N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. 1986; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Paper $9.95 New, W. H. A History of Canadian Literature. New York: New Amsterdam, 1989. $30.00 Olney, James, ed. Studies in Autobiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. $24.95. Outsider at the Heart of Things: Essays by R. P. Blackmur. Edited and Introduced by James T. Jones. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. $29.95 The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories. William Trevor, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. $24.95 Poems of Katherine Mansfield. Vincent O'SuUivan, ed. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1988. $19.95 532 ...