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Title: Albion
Review: Albion : Origins of the English ImaginationIt's possible to learn new information from reading this book, even if it does not have any obvious bearing on the stated thesis. That the thesis is itself a metaphor is one of the difficulties of mounting any kind of argument either for or against, and the author fails to do so. If the editor had been able to persuade the author to remove all of the unsupported assertions, inapposite literary anecdotes, and forced connective phraseology, the book would be about 20 pages long. It reads like a term paper by a 14-year-old trying to impress the reader with how many big (non-Anglo-Saxon!) words he knows, while not realizing that the topic is beyond his reach.
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