Albion: The Origins of the English ImaginationChatto & Windus, 2002 - 516 pagina's Covers the whole of English cultural history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day--from the Venerable Bede through English myths such as the legends about King Arthur and Albion to C.S. Lewis; from Chaucer through Spenser to George Eliot; from the English mystics through the philosopher Locke to Iris Murdoch; from Purcell through Elgar to Michael Tippett; from Hogarth through Constable to Turner; from mystery plays through Shakespeare to music hall. Ackroyd's favourite themes are here: the visionary poetry of Blake, the theatrical novels of Dickens, the humanism of Thomas More--and there are also explorations of forgery and plagiarism, Romanticism, artificiality, farce and pantomime, assimilation and energy.--From publisher description. |
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... Francis Bacon , in his emphasis on the importance of scientific method in intellectual enquiry . So we have the paradox of a distinctively English sensibility working within , and gaining strength from , a European and Latin tradition ...
... Francis Bacon , in his emphasis on the importance of scientific method in intellectual enquiry . So we have the paradox of a distinctively English sensibility working within , and gaining strength from , a European and Latin tradition ...
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... Francis Bacon . ' Bacon , among all his pretensions to the regard of posterity , seems to have pleased himself mainly with his essays , " which come home to mens business and bosoms " and of which , therefore , he declares his ...
... Francis Bacon . ' Bacon , among all his pretensions to the regard of posterity , seems to have pleased himself mainly with his essays , " which come home to mens business and bosoms " and of which , therefore , he declares his ...
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... Francis Bacon can be claimed as the first significant proponent of experimental science . " The matter in hand is no mere felicity of speculation ' , he wrote in Novum Organum , ' but the real business and fortunes of the human race ...
... Francis Bacon can be claimed as the first significant proponent of experimental science . " The matter in hand is no mere felicity of speculation ' , he wrote in Novum Organum , ' but the real business and fortunes of the human race ...
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