Publisher's Synopsis
Brewer?s Anthology of England and the English is an English ?parliament of voices? ? from the patriotic and laudatory to the dissident and choleric. With attention focused as never before on England ? the ?sleeping partner? of a loosening Union, and the definitions of ?England? and ?Britain? under increasing scrutiny, it offers a timely, thought-provoking and richly entertaining contribution to an intensifying debate about nationhood.