num_pages: 576
description: 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.
language: English
title: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
titlecomplete: Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
genres: Art, Philosophy, Cultural, Literary Fiction, Reference, Literature, British Literature, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 575
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Anchor