In this last book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English–speaking modern world. Most of them are inhabitants of the North Sea archipelago once known as Great Britain, who are here seen as tribally distinct, as Scottish, English, Irish, or Welsh, and as a single society. The book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century.
In this last book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English–speaking modern world. Most of them are inhabitants of the North Sea archipelago once known as Great Britain, who are here seen as tribally distinct, as Scottish, English, Irish, or Welsh, and as a single society. The book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the literature of the last century.