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Free articles from the English archive
We are pleased to offer 25 article highlights from the English archive FREE online. The selection spans the journal's 73 year history, and features articles from the inaugural issue in 1936, right up to the current volume.
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His Father's Dublin Funeral
Sean O'Casey
Volume 1, Number 1, 1936
Aristotle on Detective Fiction
Dorothy L. Sayers
Volume 1, Number 1, 1936
The Plays of G. B. Shaw
Una Ellis-Fermor
Volume 4, Number 19, Spring 1942
Book Review: George Gascoigne, Elizabethan Courtier, Soldier, and Poet
E. K. Chambers
Volume 4, Number 22, Spring 1943
Book Review:The Weald of Youth
V. De S. Pinto
Volume 4, Number 22, Spring 1943
Association Notes: Notice of the Death of Professor Caroline Spurgeon
Volume 4, Number 22, Spring 1943
Book Review: Regency Roundabout
Mona Wilson
Volume 4, Number 23, Summer 1943
The Imagery of Romeo and Juliet
E. C. Pettet
Volume 8, Number 45, Autumn 1950
Adam Bede: Reconsidered
R. A. Foakes
Volume 12, Number 71, Summer 1959
Much Ado About the Sonnets
R. A. Foakes
Volume 15, Number 86, Summer 1964
Scottish Number of English: Poetry Selections
Volume 16, Number 96, Autumn 1967:
Orkney Crofter
George Mackay Brown
Poetry and Science
Hugh MacDiarmid
The Red Well, Harris
Norman MacCaig
English 1936-1969
Margaret Willy
Volume 18, Number 100, Spring 1969 - Centenary issue
Contemporary English Drama and Mass Media
Martin Esslin
Volume 18, Number 100, Spring 1969 - Centenary issue
Middlemarch: Public and Private Worlds
Barbara Hardy
Volume 25, Number 121, Spring 1976
Book Review: Pot-Pourri and Arbitrary Government
Jeremy Maule
Volume 33, Number 145, Spring 1984
Book Review: Absolute Revision
David Norbrook
Volume 33, Number 147, Autumn 1984
Renaissance Chaucer and Father Chaucer
A.C. Spearing
Volume 34, Number 148, Spring 1985
Literary Theory and the Rushdie Affair
K. M. Newton
Volume 41, Number 171, Autumn 1992
Ziggersagger Shandy: Sterne and the Aesthetics of the Crooked Line
Pat Rogers
Volume 42, Number 173, Summer 1993
Teaching and 'Theory' Again
Simon Dentith
Volume 44, Number 178, Spring 1995
‘A Different Country’: Housman and Hill
Steven Matthews
Volume 53, Number 206, Summer 2004
Talking After Theory: An Interview with Terry Eagleton
Matthew Jarvis and Liz Oakley-Brown
Volume 53, Number 207, Autumn 2004
Public Intellectuals and the Schoolteacher Audience: The First Ten Years of the Critical Quarterly
Carol Atherton
Volume 58, Number 220, Spring 2009
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