The English Spirit: Essays in Literature and History

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Personality of Shakespeare....Pages 1-18
The Problem of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Solved....Pages 19-49
The Shakespeare Exhibition....Pages 50-58
Queen Elizabeth I and the Historians....Pages 59-77
Sir Winston Churchill as an Historian....Pages 78-92
Erasmus and England....Pages 93-104
The Tudor Character....Pages 105-112
An Elizabethan Exhibition....Pages 113-124
Elizabeth at Rycote....Pages 125-130
The Spanish College at Bologna....Pages 131-133
The Old Music School at Oxford....Pages 134-139
The Caroline Country Parson: George Herbert....Pages 140-145
Three Civil War Figures....Pages 146-156
Clarendon’s Life....Pages 157-163
Pictures in a Deanery....Pages 164-169
Swift as Poet....Pages 170-178
Sarah Churchill in Old Age....Pages 179-187
Horace Walpole and George Montagu....Pages 188-193
The Letters of Junius....Pages 194-200
Carlyle’s Past and Present....Pages 201-206
Macaulay’s Essays....Pages 207-211
The Neglected Froude....Pages 212-221
Kilvert’s Diary....Pages 222-228
Rudyard Kipling....Pages 229-245
Three Americans on England....Pages 246-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-276