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Book reviewed in this article:ERNEST B. GILMAN, The Curious Perspective: Literary And Pictorial Wit In The Seventeenth Century. Yale University Press, ł11·50.MICHAEL SCOTT, John Marston's Plays. Macmillan, ł8·95.JOHNGOODE, George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction. Vision, ł5·95.HUGH HUNT, KENNETH RICHARDS and JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR, The Revels History of Drama in English, Volume VII. Methuen, ł15.80 (hardback), ł8·95 (paperback).IOHN SPENCER HILL, (ed.), Imagination in Coleridge. Macmillan, ł8·95.IACK STILLINCER, (ed.), The Poems of John Keats. Heinemann, ł18·00.D. FARLEY‐HILLS, Rochester's Poetry. Bell & Hyman, ł8·95.DUSTIN H. GRIFFIN, Alexander Pope: the Poet in the Poems. Princeton University Press, ł11·00.C. N. MANLOVE, Literature and Reality 1600 ‐ 1800. Macmillan, ł8·95.SIR WALTER SCOTT, The Prefaces to the Waverley Novels, edited by Mark A. Weinstein. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, ł8·40.DEREK ROPER, Reviewing before the ‘Edinburgh’, 1788–1802. Methuen, ł12·50.JOHN BUXTON, The Grecian Taste: Literature in the age of neo‐classicism 1740 ‐ 1820. Macmillan, ł8·95.John Clare: The Midsummer Cushion, ed. Anne Tibbie; associate editor, R. K. R. Thornton. Mid Northumberland Arts Group & Carcanet Press, ł8·00.BRIAN FINNEY, Christopher Isherwood: a Critical Biography. Faber nd Faber, ł8·50.RONALD DUNCAN, Selected Poems 1940 ‐ 1971. Rebel Press (distributed by Element Books), ł4·25 (paperback).PHILIP THODY, Dog Days in Babel. Wild wood House, ł5·95.ROBERT F. STOREY, Pierrot: a Critical History of a Mask. Princeton University Press, ł9·40.JOHN BEER, Wordsworth and the Human Heart. Macmillan, ł10·00