The Mitre Literary Review is printed at the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom.


ROBERT O'BRIEN
Editor
MATTHEW BELL
Associate Editor
ANDREW CUSACK
Publisher

CONTACT:
literaryreview@yahoo.com






We are finally gone for the summer.
The next edition will be published in October.
FEBRUARY 2005

LEADER
Leisure, the Basis of Culture
In Defence of Time-Wasting

ARTICLE
All That is Seen and Unseen
The Novels of Dame Muriel Spark — by Peter Blair

POETRY
The Caedmon Jazz
by Chris Jones

ARTICLE
The Meaning of 'Aardvark'
Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Johnson published his Dictionary, a work of genius and prejudice writes Robert O'Brien.
And Dr. Johnson's St Andrews Lament.

REVIEWS
A Little Gem from the Master of the Doorstop
Philippa Turner reviews The Vanished Landscape: A 1930's Childhood in the Potteries by Paul Johnson.
The 'Phoenix' Queen
Maria Bramble reviews 'My Heart is My Own': The Life of Mary Queen of Scots by John Guy.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Reviewed by Robert O'Brien.

CINEMA
Thin on Plot, Not on Eyeliner
Oliver Stone's Alexander is reviewed by Matt Bell.

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