Abstract
Acknowledgments and editorial notes Introduction: an overview of scope and method Part I. Contexts: Intellectual, Psychological and National: Prologue to part I 1. Moderns, ancients and the secular: the limits of southern hegemony 2. The spiritual: truth was not the inclination of the first ages 3. An ambition to excel 4. The making of a modern canon Part II. Texts Within Contexts. Essaying England: Our Genius, Our Clime: Prologue to part II 5. Dryden's 'Essay of Dramatick Poesie': the poetics of nationalism 6. Homeric wars 7. The 'Pax Romana' and the 'Pax Britannica': the ethics of war and the ethics of trade 8. 'Windsor Forest' and 'The Rape of the Lock' Part III. Growing One's Own: The British Ode From Cowley to Gray: Prologue to part III 9. Greek jockeys and British heroes: the rise and fall of the Pindaric ode 10. Odes to the nation and the north: Dryden, Collins and Gray Part IV. Expanding the Borders. Jews and Jesus: This Israel, This England: Prologue to part IV 11. The house of David and the house of St. George: philosemitism, Hebrews and Handel 12. Beyond the Hebrew leaven: smart and the God in Christ Part V. Celts, Germans and Scots: Towards a United Kingdom: Prologue to part V 13. Celtic Scotland 14. Ossian in Scotland, Great Britain and modern Europe: joining Britannia's issue 15. Conclusion. Synthesizing all the nations under heaven Appendix: the text of Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' Index.
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