The English vision : an anthology / edtied by Herbert Read.
This anthology, first published in 1939, aimed to present the English ideal in its various aspects as expressed by representative Englishmen. This book will be of interest to students of literature and to the general reader.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; General Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; LANDSCAPE; 1. A Gleaming Segment of all England; 2. The Valley of the Avon; 3. An English Hill; 4. This England; 5. Shakespeare's Scenery; 6. Local Circumstance in "Lycidas"; 7. Landscape and Genius; 8. A Country House; 9. The Principles of English Gardening; 10. English Comfort; UPBRINGING; 11. An English School; 12. Eton and Cambridge; CHARACTERISTICS; 13. The Good Yeoman; 14. The English Gentleman; 15. A Definition of a Gentleman.
- 16. A Natural Gentleman17. The Old English Guise; 18. The Equable Sense; 19. Common Sense; 20. English Youth; 21. English Pride; HISTORICAL IDEALS; 22. Heralds of Fame; 23. Retrospective Immortality; 24. The Patriot King; 25. Patriotic Reminiscence; 26. National Brotherhood; 27. The Virtues of Insularity; 28. The Two Englands; 29. Just Prejudice; 30. A Republican Firmness; 31. Filial Fears; 32. Civil Liberty; 33. The Institution of Juries; 34. Liberty and Authority; 35. The Doctrine of Eccentricity; 36. Independence and Liberty; NATIONAL TEMPER; 37. The Racial Blend; 38. Our Earthly Instinct.
- 39. Grown Children40. The English Renascence; 41. The Spirit of the Reformation; 42. A Christian People; 43. The English Revolution; 44. The Epic of John Bull; 45. English Religion and Philosophy; NATIVE GENIUS-LITERATURE; 46. We too serve Phoebus; 47. These Islands my World; 48. Good English Words; 49. The Vulgar Tongue; 50. The English Language (1); 51. The English Language (2); 52. Importations; 53. English Eloquence; 54. The Turn for Style; 55. The First of the English; 56. Town and Country Poets; 57. Licensed Fooling; NATIVE GENIUS-DRAMA; 58. English Humour; 59. The English Stage.
- NATIVE GENIUS-PAINTING60. The English School; 61. Stay at Home; NATIVE GENIUS-MUSIC; 62. An English Composer; 63. English Melody; THE ULTIMATE IDEAL; 64. Albion's Land; 65. The New Age; 66. One Great Federation; 67. England and Europe.