The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf

by Stephen Medcalf

Overview

The Spirit of England: Selected Essays of Stephen Medcalf

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367603465
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brian Cummings is Professor of English, and Gabriel Josipovici is Research Professor of English, at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Provenance x

Introduction xi

1 Virgil at the Turn of Time 1

2 The Coincidence of Myth and Fact 20

3 Classical Translation in Medieval England 41

4 On Reading Books from a Half-Alien Culture 64

5 Piers Plowman and the Ricardian Age in Literature 91

6 The World and Heart of Thomas Usk 131

7 Dreaming, Looking, and Seeing: Shakespeare and a Myth of Resurrection 152

8 Horace's Kipling 172

9 The Achievement of G. K. Chesterton 194

10 T. S. Eliot's Metamorphoses: Ovid and The Waste Land 224

11 The Innocence of P. G. Wodehouse 238

12 Bill and Mr Golding's Daimon 251

13 Three Modern English Poets: John Betjeman, C. H. Sisson, Geoffrey Hill 261

14 Things New-Born 273

Index 281