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John Pemble: Literary Tourists, 7 June 2007
The Literary Tourist
by Nicola J. Watson.
Palgrave, 244 pp., £45, October 2006,1 4039 9992 9 Show More
by Nicola J. Watson.
Palgrave, 244 pp., £45, October 2006,
“... a pantheon. So the nation took its atavism elsewhere: to places like Stoke Poges, where Thomas Gray was buried in the churchyard he’d made legendary, and especially to Stratford, sanctified by the grave of Shakespeare. This argument about nationalism isn’t watertight, since it was London that spoke for the nation, and London never got Shakespeare ... ”