Albion: The Origins of the English ImaginationChatto & Windus, 2002 - 516 страница 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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... living in dream or vision . Robert Herrick saw Anacreon in vision . Homer appeared to Chapman , while Milton manifested himself to William Blake . Francis Thompson saw Chatterton , and the dead poet saved the living from an attempt at ...
... living in dream or vision . Robert Herrick saw Anacreon in vision . Homer appeared to Chapman , while Milton manifested himself to William Blake . Francis Thompson saw Chatterton , and the dead poet saved the living from an attempt at ...
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... living power of the imagination that they take on a pre- eminently human shape . In that respect they are tokens of the mystery of the Incarnation which is at the heart of fourteenth - century Catholicism . Piers the Plowman , the ...
... living power of the imagination that they take on a pre- eminently human shape . In that respect they are tokens of the mystery of the Incarnation which is at the heart of fourteenth - century Catholicism . Piers the Plowman , the ...
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... living presence of the past . The English tradition may itself then be glimpsed as a revenant , reaching out to the living with uplifted arms . That is why the ghost story is recognised to be a quintessentially English form . It has ...
... living presence of the past . The English tradition may itself then be glimpsed as a revenant , reaching out to the living with uplifted arms . That is why the ghost story is recognised to be a quintessentially English form . It has ...
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