Title: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9780385497732
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages: 560
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Europe, England, History, Great Britain, Literary Criticism, English, History - General History, European, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, History: World, Europe - Great Britain - General, National characteristics, English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, History and criticism, National characteristics; English, English literature, Arts, Arts; English
Categories: History, European History, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Great Britain - General & Miscellaneous History
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
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