Albion Peter Ackroyd

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION - Albion

Patterns of Eternity

CHAPTER 1 - The Tree

CHAPTER 2 - The Radiates

CHAPTER 3 - Listen!

CHAPTER 4 - Why Is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?

CHAPTER 5 - A Rare and Singular Bede

CHAPTER 6 - The Song of the Past

CHAPTER 7 - The Lives of Others

CHAPTER 8 - A Land of Dreams

CHAPTER 9 - A Note on English Melancholy

CHAPTER 10 - The Rolling Hills

CHAPTER 11 - It Rained All Night

CHAPTER 12 - The Prose of the World

CHAPTER 13 - The First Initials

CHAPTER 14 - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

CHAPTER 15 - The Alteration

CHAPTER 16 - He Is Not Dead

The Piety of England

CHAPTER 17 - Faith of Our Fathers

CHAPTER 18 - Old Stone

CHAPTER 19 - Part of the Territory

The Poetry of England

CHAPTER 20 - A Song and a Dance

CHAPTER 21 - Fathers and Sons

CHAPTER 22 - The Foolish Giant

Solitaries and Recusants

CHAPTER 23 - The Mysterious Voice

CHAPTER 24 - The Inheritance

Women and Silence

CHAPTER 25 - The Female Religion

CHAPTER 26 - But Newly Translated

CHAPTER 27 - The Italian Connection

Mungrell Tendencies

CHAPTER 28 - A Short History of Shakespeare

CHAPTER 29 - And Now for Streaky Bacon

Antiquarianism and English History

CHAPTER 30 - Among the Ruins

CHAPTER 31 - The Conservative Tendency

CHAPTER 32 - A Short History Lesson

In the English Tradition

CHAPTER 33 - The Song of the Sea

CHAPTER 34 - A Brief Excursion

CHAPTER 35 - A Miniature

CHAPTER 36 - I Saw You, Missis

An English Bible

CHAPTER 37 - In the Beginning

Cockney Visionaries

CHAPTER 38 - London Calling

A Wealth of Characters

CHAPTER 39 - An Essay on the Essay

CHAPTER 40 - The Hogarthian Moment

CHAPTER 41 - Some Eminent Novelists

CHAPTER 42 - A Character Study

CHAPTER 43 - The Fine Art of Biography

Women and Anger

CHAPTER 44 - Femality and Fiction

CHAPTER 45 - Blood and Gore

CHAPTER 46 - Ghosts

Philosophy, Mockery and Learning

CHAPTER 47 - Practice Makes Perfect

CHAPTER 48 - Prolix and Prolific

CHAPTER 49 - Some More Dunces

CHAPTER 50 - The Secret Garden

Looking Backwards

CHAPTER 51 - Forging a Language

CHAPTER 52 - The Romantic Fallacy

CHAPTER 53 - English Music

EPILOGUE - The Territorial Imperative

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Peter Ackroyd

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