‘A sheer delight’ Times Literary Supplement
Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some of England's finest authors and poets (both alive and dead) including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John le Carré, Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster and Alan Bennett. He also analysed the works of a variety of our Masters covering the past four hundred years such as, of course, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Pepys. Whether it be holding up to account the writings of Winston Churchill, or celebrating the much-loved poems of Siegfried Sassoon, each essay reproduced in full here has been carefully chosen by Mount to weave a unique tapestry of the wealth of writings that have helped shape his own respected career as an author and political commentator. For anyone interested and passionate about writing and poetry across the centuries in the British Isles, this book will be a very welcome guide to the best one can pick up and read.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Also by Ferdinand Mount
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Epigraph page
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Amphibious Mob
- VOICES IN OUR TIME
- Kingsley Amis: the craving machine
- Alan Bennett: against splother
- Muriel Spark: the Go-Away Bird
- V. S. Naipaul: no home for Mr Biswas
- Hugh Trevor-Roper: the Voltaire of St Aldateās
- W. G. Sebald: a master shrouded in mist
- John le CarrƩ: spooking the spooks
- Elias Canetti: the God-Monster of Hampstead
- John Osborne: anger management?
- Professor Derek Jackson: off the radar
- Germaine Greer: still strapped in the cuirass
- EARLY MODERNS
- Rudyard Kipling: the sensitive bounder
- George Gissing: the downfall of a pessimist
- Virginia Woolf: go with the flow
- Arthur Ransome: Lenin in the Lake District
- E. M. Forster: shy, remorseless shade
- Arthur Machen: faerie strains
- Fred Perry: winner takes all
- M. R. James: the sexless ghost
- Wilfred Owen: the last telegram
- John Maynard Keynes: copulation and macroeconomics
- DIVINE DISCONTENTS
- Basil Hume: the English cardinal
- The Red Dean
- Charles Bradlaugh: the admirable atheist
- Mr Gladstoneās religion
- The rise and fall and rise of Methodism
- IN SEARCH OF ENGLAND
- Pevsner in Berkshire
- Oliver Rackham: magus of the woods
- The last of Betjeman
- Ronald Blythe: glory in the ruts
- The suburb and the village
- Mark Girouard and the English town
- SOME OLD MASTERS
- Thomas Hardy: the twilight of aftering
- Charles Dickens: kindly leave the stage
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a wonderful leaper
- John Keats: whatās become of Junkets?
- Samuel Pepys: from the scaffold to Mr Pooter
- Shakespeare at Stratford: the divine pork butcher
- THE GREAT VICTORIANS
- Sir Robert Peel: the first modern
- Lord Palmerston: the unstoppable Pam
- Walter Bagehot: money matters
- Lord Rosebery: the palm without the dust
- Arthur Balfour: a fatal charm
- OUR STATESMEN
- Margot, Asquith and the Great War
- Churchillās calamity: day trip to Gallipoli
- Oswald Mosley: the poor old FĆ¼hrer
- Roy Jenkins: trainspotting lothario
- Denis Healey: the bruiser aesthete
- Harold Macmillan: lonely are the brave
- Edward Heath: the great sulk
- Margaret Thatcher: making your own luck
- Notes and references
- Acknowledgements
- Picture permissions
- Index
- List of Illustrations
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