The devil has two horns

J.G.A. Pocock

  • The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O’Brien
    Minerva, 692 pp, £8.99, September 1993, ISBN 0 7493 9721 7

Conor Cruise O’Brien’s majestic study takes rise from two lines of Yeats:

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[1] ‘The Political Economy of Burke’s Analysis of the French Revolution’ in Virtue, Commerce and History (1985); edition of Reflections on the Revolution in France, cited by O’ Brien (1987); ‘Edmund Burke and the Redefinition of Enthusiasm: The Context as Counter-Revolution’, in The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture, Vol. II, edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf (1989).

[2] In particular Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ by F. P. Lock (1985).

[3] In general, he examines only those of Burke’s writings which contribute to the ‘great melody’; the question is whether this is sufficient.

[4] The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones: Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics by Garland Cannon (1991).