Simon Heffer

Capturing the last of England

The book is interesting because it has insights and novelty, not least in taking a period and a culture regarded by many as second best compared with what was happening elsewhere at the time, and shows it to have been enlightened, intelligent and full of beauty.

  • Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

    Alexandra Harris

    Thames & Hudson, pp. 320

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