CONTENTS WORDS AND MUSIC
1. Quiet Subversive John Updike
2. A Sonnet Setting Alexander Goehr
3. Brooksmith by Henry James Daniel Stern
4. Recollections Robert Tear
5. Afterwards Al Alvarez
6. Once Hearing Music Richard Burns
7. A Sense of a Beginning Adam Phillips

HANGING ABOUT WITH FRANK
8. Strictly Ballroom Anne Alvarez
9. Voyaging Ian Donaldson
10. The Opponent Wynne Godley
11. Sonnet Anthony Holden
12. Hanging About with Frank Brian Phelan
13. Sixty Years On Miriam Allott
14. Bees and Non-Being John Fortune

MAGAZINES, LONDON AND SOME ACADEMIC FLAK
15. Fashioning a Syllabus John Sutherland
16. The London Review of Books Mary-Kay Wilmers
17. Reinvigorating UCL Noel Annan
18. The Literary Journalist Karl Miller
19. But Let Us Listen to the Moon Peter Porter
20. The Chairman Charles Osborne
21. Frightened of Frank Stephen Fender
22. Seigneur Frank Richard Poirier

PARTICULARITIES
23. On Another Happy Return John Hollander
24. So Bloody Clear Edward Tayler
25. The Tomb of Petrarch's Laura J.B.Trapp
26. Forays and Interventions Denis Donoghue
27. The Pleasures of Frankness Logan Browning
28. Romantic Image Bernard Bergonzi
29. Tentativities and lnconclusions Edward Mendelson
30. The Writer Lives On Peter Washington

ISLANDER
31. The Islander Anthony Nuttall
32. Trying to be Frank Randolph Quirk
33. Parallels and Paradoxes Christine Brooke-Rose
34. Doubting Thomas Marina Warner
35. This and That Stephen Heath
36. The Kermode Bear Elisabeth Sifton
37. Man and the Echo Warwick Gould

SHAPING SPIRIT
38. There are Kermodians David Lodge
39. To Frank Kermode Kenneth Koch
40. Growing Up Lisa Jardine
41. Attenzione Nadia Fusini
42. A Sense of Time Miranda Tufnell
43. Hopelessly Plural David Plante
44. A Kind of War Jacqueline Rose