ALBION: THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION
Written by Peter Ackroyd
Published by Chatto & Windus
in 2002
ISBN: 1856197212
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ANGLO-SAXON
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Chronology
- Introduction: Albion
- Patterns of eternity
- 1 The Tree
- 2 The Radiates
- Old English
- 3 Listen!
- 4 Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
- 5 A Rare and Singular Bede
- 6 The Song of the Past
- 7 The Lives of Others
- 8 A Land of Dreams
- 9 A Note on English Melancholy
- 10 The Rolling Hills
- 11 It Rained All Night
- 12 The Prose of the World
- 13 The First Initials
- 14 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
- Middle English
- 15 The Alteration
- 16 He Is Not Dead
- The piety of England
- 17 Faith of Our Fathers
- 18 Old Stone
- 19 Part of the Territory
- The poetry of England
- 20 A Song and a Dance
- 21 Fathers and Sons
- 22 The Foolish Giant
- Solitaries and recusants
- 23 The Mysterious Voice
- 24 The Inheritance
- Women and silence
- 25 The Female Religion
- A renaissance
- 26 But Newly Translated
- 27 The Italian Connection
- Mungrell tendencies
- 28 A Short History of Shakespeare
- 29 And Now for Streaky Bacon
- Antiquarianism and English history
- 30 Among the Ruins
- 31 The Conservative Tendency
- 32 A Short History Lesson
- In the English tradition
- 33 The Song of the Sea
- 34 A Brief Excursion
- 35 A Miniature
- 36 I Saw You, Missis
- An English Bible
- 37 In the Beginning
- Cockney visionaries
- 38 London Calling
- A wealth of characters
- 39 An Essay on the Essay
- 40 The Hogarthian Moment
- 41 Some Eminent Novelists
- 42 A Character Study
- 43 The Fine Art of Biography
- Women and anger
- 44 Femality and Fiction
- Melodrama
- 45 Blood and Gore
- 46 Ghosts
- Philosophy, mockery and learning
- 47 Practice Makes Perfect
- 48 Prolix and Prolific
- 49 Some More Dunces
- Green England
- 50 The Secret Garden
- Looking backwards
- 51 Forging a Language
- 52 The Romantic Fallacy
- 53 English Music
- Epilogue: the territorial imperative
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index