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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Illustrations
Chronology
INTRODUCTION - Albion
Patterns of Eternity
CHAPTER 1 - The Tree
CHAPTER 2 - The Radiates
Old English
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
Middle English
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
A Renaissance
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
Melodrama
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
Green England
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
Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Author
Also by Peter Ackroyd
Copyright Page
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