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Albion
the origins of the English imagination
By Ackroyd, Peter
- ISBN
- 978-0-38549-772-5
- Publisher
- New York : Nan A. Talese, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2003
In this impressive study, novelist, biographer, and poet Ackroyd (London: The Biography) traces the roots of the uniquely English imagination as manifested in literature, music, the visual arts, philosophy, and science. This imagination, he maintains, is an endless circle that moves both backward and forward; no art can be viewed in isolation since all the arts are part of the same continuum going back to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
