Volume 31, Number 4 · March 15, 1984
All the King's Men
By Daniel Albright
The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account
by Robert M. Adams
Norton, 555 pp., $29.95
If we were to decide to attribute the corpus of English literature not to a diverse and unmanageable group of writers, but to a single intelligence, how would we describe the growth of that mind? Schopenhauer thought that human individualism was delusory, that there existed in the world one indivisible subject, a blind, choked, contorted Will struggling against itself toward some distant moment of objectivity, self-consciousness, indifference. Let us name that Will the giant Albion, and call him the author of the entire anthology.
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