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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... narrative . That attraction to the epic form has persisted among the English poets . There are of course the great examples of Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost , of Hardy's The Dynasts and the fragment of The Fall ...
... narrative . That attraction to the epic form has persisted among the English poets . There are of course the great examples of Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost , of Hardy's The Dynasts and the fragment of The Fall ...
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... narratives . Bede promulgated the important lesson that only a defining vision can properly order an historical narrative , and that good histories can be formulated only by good writers . History is an art , in other words , and cannot ...
... narratives . Bede promulgated the important lesson that only a defining vision can properly order an historical narrative , and that good histories can be formulated only by good writers . History is an art , in other words , and cannot ...
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... narrative levels ' . " This was the style of London , and of England . It may also reflect Chaucer's own social being and his ' somewhat ambiguous position poised somewhere between the court . .. and the city and shifting in relation to ...
... narrative levels ' . " This was the style of London , and of England . It may also reflect Chaucer's own social being and his ' somewhat ambiguous position poised somewhere between the court . .. and the city and shifting in relation to ...
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