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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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Albion, Peter Ackroyd
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- 2002
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- Title
- Albion
- Subtitle
- The Origins of the English Imagination
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Ackroyd
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN10
- 1856197212
- ISBN13
- 9781856197212
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Literary Studies, Art, British Literature, England, Culture and Society, Art History & Criticism, English Literature, History of Art, History of Europe, Literary Criticism, Imagination, History of England, English Painting
- First published
- 2002
- Original title
- Albion: The Origin of the Engish Imagination
- Rating
- 3.3 out of 5
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- 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