Previous Issues of Words in Edgeways
Issue No. 20
April 2007Notes on the Merchant of Venice, D. H. Lawrence, and the OCR examining board; a review of the God Delusion; a letter to another editor Read more...
Issues No. 18-19
October 2006 and January 2007Translating Homer; Song of Songs and D. H. Lawrence; Leavis and philosophy; Church of England; IT plus the Dark Ages; verse; letters; the homophobic use of “gay” and a letter received a year later! Read more...
Issue No. 17
July 2006Lying as style not statement in Wuthering Heights; Leavisite prejudice against Shelley Read more...
Issue No. 16
April 2006Shelley in the post-modern age; Lyte, a literary theorist 3; David Baddiel's obituary; letters Read more...
Issue No. 15
January 2006Martha Nussbaum; Shelley's "The Triumph of Life"; Lyte, a literary theorist 2; poems; letters Read more...
Issue No. 14
October 2005Achebe's racism; Shelley's "Mont Blanc"; Lyte, a literary theorist; letters Read more...
Issue No. 13
July 2005On Keats's "Ode to Autumn" and other poems; Lolita, a moral tale or a love story?; a short story Read more...
Issue No. 11
January 2005Martin Amis's Yellow Dog; going to university; philosophy reviews; poems; a cliché; letters Read more...
Issue No. 10
October 2004On Michael Howard on "Europe"; Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong; "Ignorance" in Pilgrim's Progress; Arnold's Criticism; letters Read more...
Issue No. 9
July 2004On Martha Nussbaum on (i) The Golden Bowl (ii) Hard Times; on Martin Amis and the present state of fiction; Peregrine Worsthorne's In Defence of Aristocracy reviewed; a poem, a query and a squib Read more...
Issue No. 8
April 2004On style in Lolita, Orwell, style and character in Mansfield Park, “Does linguistics help you to write better?”; why Swansea University ought to be closed down Read more...
Issue No. 7
January 2004Chinua Achebe says Conrad is a racist: is he? Religious education: who has more to offer, Philip Pullman and Jill Paton Walsh or … Bunyan? How important is standardised spelling? Letters Read more...
Issue No. 6
December 2003A letter from Scrooge, a previously unpublished story by T. F. Powys, patience in the medieval poets, against censuses, a story by M. B. Mencher, a linguistic bibliography, a review of the OSC production of Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance Read more...
Issue No. 5
November 2003On mind-brain identity, cliché, tragedy, Grimm’s Juniper Tree, worship, a review of Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Brontë and the Mentor Lover, Patricia Menon Read more...
Issue No. 4
October 2003On Jeremy Paxman’s The English: a Portrait of a People, the National Lottery, women’s rights and babies’ rights, and education policy Read more...
Issue No. 3
September 2003An education policy for a political party and letters on homosexuality and the just war Read more...
Issue No. 2
August 2003On homosexuality, the just war, private prisons, suicide, closing down the British Council and the English Association, Harry Potter’s prose, The Amber Spyglass Read more...
Issue No. 1
July 2003On competition, House of Lords, class and education, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Larkin Read more...
