title: A History of England: England in the Later Middle Ages
author: M.H. Keen
description: Folio Society of London's slipcased edition of M.H. Keen's 1973 work.
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  In Warwickshire
  
  
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  # In Warwickshire
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
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  EText by Ian Hillman
  
  
  AN ACCOMPLISHED contributor to these pages lately used a happy phrase
  
  
  in speaking of that charming region whose name I have just written. He
  
  
  called it the “heart of England.” Making a short stay there very
  
  
  lately, I remembered this appellation. I felt as if I were at the
  
  
  grassy centre and core of the English world. It is in fact central
  
  
  England, midmost England, essential, immitigable England. I have a
  
  
  sense of knowing a good deal more about this admirable country by
  
  
  reason of this heedful sojourn. I feel as if, after a fashion, I had
  
  
  been “interviewing” the genius of pastoral Britain. From a charming
  
  
  lawn—-a lawn delicious to one's sentient boot-sole—-I looked without
  
  
  obstruction at a sombre, soft, romantic mass, whose outl