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Albion : The Origins of the English Imagination

Peter Ackroyd

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Albion : The Origins of the English Imagination

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ISBN: 9780385497732
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Date of Publication: 2004-11-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, History, Philosophy
Related Topics: History
Goodreads rating: 3.72
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With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed 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 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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