The English Prophets: A Critical Defence of English Criticism

Ian Robinson

ISBN 10: 0907839665 / ISBN 13: 9780907839668

Published by The Brynmill Press, Norfolk, 2001

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Slight bumping to upper corners. Light fading to dust-jacket's spine. Otherwise a fine, unmarked copy with firm binding and no noticeable signs of use. s154.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The English Prophets: A Critical Defence of English Criticism
• Publisher: The Brynmill Press, Norfolk
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907839665
• ISBN 13: 9780907839668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The writers who make up Ian Robinson’s subject are the great literary and social critics of the nineteenth century and after: Coleridge, Newman, Carlyle, Arnold, Lawrence, Eliot, Leavis and others — what is often, in universities nowadays, patronizingly called “the English tradition”. The suggestion the title makes is, “What if we think of their importance in English life as comparable with that of the prophets in Old Testament Judah?” The book argues for the indispensability of the English critics and also defines a consistent flaw running through them which needs to be mended if, as they must, they are to go on contributing to our own judgement of ourselves.