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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Evolution and Inspiration | ||
| 1 | Homer: Old Fathers and Absent Kings | 1 |
| The Iliad: "Remember your father" | 2 | |
| The Odyssey: "Nobody really knows his own father" | 16 | |
| 2 | Virgil: The Demons of Empire and the Death of Queens | 35 |
| The Georgics: "Here is my poem about fields and flocks and trees" | 35 | |
| The Aeneid: "Burn these damned ships with me" | 40 | |
| 3 | William Shakespeare: The Father's Ghost, the Madman's Rage, the Witches' Spell | 57 |
| Hamlet: "Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me" | 57 | |
| King Lear: "Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!" | 63 | |
| Macbeth: "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter" | 73 | |
| 4 | John Milton: God's Silence, God's Justice, Our Freedom, Our Fall | 86 |
| Comus and the Early Poems: "Meer moral babble" | 86 | |
| Paradise Lost: "O for that warning voice" | 89 | |
| 5 | Christopher Smart: Peace and the Poor, Prophecy in the Madhouse | 109 |
| 6 | William Blake: Harsh Instruments of Sound and Witches with Knives | 127 |
| Early poems: "I wrote my happy songs" | 129 | |
| "The Visions of the Daughters of Albion": "Oothoon shall view his dear delight, nor e'er with jealous cloud / Come in the heaven of generous love, nor selfish blightings bring" | 133 | |
| "The Four Zoas": "And all the arts of life they changed into the arts of death" | 135 | |
| "Milton": "A Virgin of twelve years" | 147 | |
| "Jerusalem": "I have slain him in my sleep with the knife of the Druid" | 150 | |
| 7 | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prophets of Nature, Poets of Good and Evil | 156 |
| The Early Poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge: "Nature's holy plan" | 157 | |
| Wordworth's Spirits of the Mind: "Forgive" | 159 | |
| Wordsworth's Prelude: "Sleep no more!" | 165 | |
| Coleridge's Early Demons: "Beware! beware!" | 183 | |
| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": "He prayeth best who loveth best" | 185 | |
| Coleridge's Later Demons: "A scream / Of agony by torture lengthened out" | 189 | |
| 8 | Alfred Tennyson and Matthew Arnold: The Truthful King and the Lying State | 194 |
| Tennyson's Early Poems: "Were it not better not to be?" | 195 | |
| "In Memoriam": "The power in darkness whom we guess" | 201 | |
| "Maud" and "Lucretius": "And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers 'Death'" | 205 | |
| Idylls of the King: "Obedience is the courtesy due to kings!" | 215 | |
| Matthew Arnold: "The Gods laugh in their sleeve / To watch man doubt and fear" | 227 | |
| 9 | Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson: Unwanted Sounds, the Punishment of Pagan Poets | 234 |
| Emily Bronte, "Speak, God of Visions" | 235 | |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Fifty bells / Of naked iron" | 239 | |
| Christina Rossetti: "Eat me, drink me, love me" | 252 | |
| Emily Dickinson: "As all the Heavens were a Bell, / And Being, but an Ear" | 257 | |
| 10 | William Butler Yeats: Old Fathers and Great Queens | 264 |
| Early Poems: "Munster grass and Connemara skies" | 266 | |
| Responsibilities: "Pardon, old fathers" | 269 | |
| The Wild Swans at Coole: "With that cry I have raised my cry" | 271 | |
| Michael Robartes and the Dancer: "Once more the storm is howling" | 274 | |
| The Tower: "A sudden blast of dusty wind" | 278 | |
| The Winding Stair and Other Poems: "Sound of a stick upon the floor" | 282 | |
| Last Poems: "Out of a cavern comes a voice" | 286 | |
| Conclusion: The Past and the Future | 295 | |
| Notes | 301 | |
| Index | 327 |
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Edmond Osborn
reviewed Of two minds on February 12, 2012
Of two minds
There is something about the cousinly relationship, the pre- and post-revolutionary national development, the subtle shades of Anglo-Saxon linguistic nuance - heck, the whole I say, old boy, that's a rather marvelous thing you Yanks have got going there - that allows the British to be amongst the best interpreters and recorders of US history, and Hugh Brogan is no exception. There have been some first rate titles in the Pelican'Penguin History series, but this tome surely emerges at the very uppermost level.
The two-hundred-plus years that have passed in the life of the young republic have been some of the most inspiring, event-filled, and significant that have elapsed in the entire recorded history of mankind. Brogan captures the excitement of this rapid-pace nation-building, full of illimitable and exuberant potentiality and disciplined spirituality, but erected upon an edifice permanently stained by the cruel injustice of slavery and a curious, ofttimes ill-fitting guise of coarse, inexhaustible materialism. From the earliest coastal settlements through to the eventide gloom of Cardigan Carter and the buoyant Morning in America of Ronald Reagan, Brogan applies the lens of an impartial observer to the onrushing threads of a continental destiny. Although - like in so many general US histories - the years of financial-industrial gigantism and political graft of the late 19th century receive less attention than is warranted, there are really few flaws in this vastly readable undertaking. Brogan's tome is of a level with that masterwork from a scion of a renowned American pedigree, Samuel Eliot Morrison; and combined with the antipodal interpretations from the progressive Zinn and the conservative Johnson, there would be little that happened in the overarching development from hardscrabble colony to global superpower that wasn't illuminated from every angle for the reader's edification. Highly recommended.
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