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ALBION: THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION

by Peter Ackroyd

Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st. 2002

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Discovering the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and tracing it through the centuries. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Colour plates & b/w illustrations.

Spine and corners slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and a little faded to edge of front panel.

ISBN: 1856197212
Stock no. 1327805

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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

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