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Copyright © George Watson, 2013

 

First Published, 2013

 

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Contents

Preface

I Heresies

1. Who are the Heretics?

2. The War of the Canon

3. A View from the Basement

4. The Virtue of Verse

5. The Privilege of Absurdity

6. The Best of British

7. Making History

8. Shooting the President

9. Commonplaces

10. No Marx for Engels

II More Heresies

11. Americanophilia

12. The Americanness of Poetry

13. The Rain in Spain

14. Educating the Prime Minister

15. The Indictment of the Germans

16. Thoughts on a Dead Elephant

17. The Sudden Death of Imperial Guilt

III The Heretics

18. P.G. Wodehouse

19. The Forgotten Churchill

20. Arthur Quiller-Couch

21. E.M. Forster

22. C.P. Snow

23. Hugh Sykes Davies

24. Angus Wilson

25. Moses Finley

26. Hugh Trevor-Roper

27. Frank Kermode

28. Douglas Adams