Spain, Past and Present Francisco José Moreno 481
The Poem in the Ear John Hollander 486
Conglomerate Mergers and Economic Concentration Richard Fishbein 507
White Racism and the Civil Rights Movement Richard Gillam 520
The War of 1812 Could Not Take Place: Henry Adams’s History Peter Shaw 544
Two Poems Thomas McNamee 557
Briar Island. Verse Louis Coxe 560
New Books in Review:
Shakespeare in Arcadia Terence Hawkes 561
Mr. Republican John M. Blum 578
Form and Feeling David J. Gordon 583
Decision-Makers Daniel Yergin 594
New Poetry: The Church of Ash Laurence Lieberman 602
Russia and Newton F. Kazemzadeh 613
A West Indian Novelist Michael Cooke 616
Pynchon’s Gravity Edward Mendelson 624
Science in Review: Gunnar Erdtman Is Dead Paul Colinvaux 631
New Records in Review B. H. Haggin 636
Reader’s Guide viii-xviii
Contributors xviii