Albion: The Origins Of The English Imagination

Albion: The Origins Of The English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd


ISBN
9781856197212
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
512
Dimensions
164 x 241 x 44mm

From Beowulf and the Venerable Bede through King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table to Tolkien's 'Lord Of The Rings'; from Chaucer through Shakespeare to Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters; from Purcell to Vaughan Williams, Hogarth to Turner; from mystery plays and lives of the saints through music hall to pantomime . . .

Peter Ackroyd's favourite themes are there: visionary poetry, theatrical novels, fantastical travel books; English paths in the English landscape, the sound of the sea in English music; the overlapping of myth with reality, fiction with non-fiction - and there are also explorations of forgery and plagiarism; Romanticism and autobiography; translation and assimilation; ruins and antiquarianism.; the English love of miniatures, drag acts and eccentrics; and the English predilection for understatement and embarrassment.

As he did in London, Peter Ackroyd leads the reader through a labyrinth. An exciting and exuberant book.
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