Dartmouth Authors

Edward Connery Lathem '51 and Hyde Cox, editors, Prose Jottings of Robert Frost:Selections from His Notebooks and Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Northeast-Kingdom Publishers (Lunenburg, Vermont) 1983. 145 pp., cloth. The editors have selected more than two hundred representative entries from the notebooks Frost kept, from his early years onward; they bring together and make available ideas, observations, and judgments reflecting the poet's quirky and questioning mind. The book is handsomely printed and bound, and comes in a special slipcase; in every respect it observes the high standards maintained by Roderick Stinehour '50 and his colleagues in all their endeavors.

Stephen G. Nichols, Jr. '58, RomanesqueSigns: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography. Yale University Press, 1983. 248 pp., cloth. A book that examines the art, architecture, historiography, and literature of Western Europe from roughly 1000 to 1150 A.D. in terms of their increasingly broadened audience. A central focus of the study is the place in early medieval art and letters taken by the glorification of the emperor Charlemagne, and the illumination that can come from examining the different ways of dealing with the legend, from didactic narrative to poetic discourse.

Professor David G. Becker, The NewBourgeoisie and the Limits of Dependency:Mining, Class and Power in "Revolutionary"Peru. Princeton University Press, 1983. 418 pp., cloth and paperback. Concentrating on one country, Peru; one industry, the mining of non-ferrous metals; and one period, the post-1968 military government, Becker presents a complex and sophisticated analysis of "bonaza development," and examines its place in the spectrum of ways in which developing countries make the transitions to their industrial destiny." In the process he makes possible a study of a whole society in the process of transformation.