Incredibly erudite and thrilling. Barcewell's ideas are impossible to describe adequately, he just makes you just want to chase down his reference points immediately. He does identify Morrissey as a key player, (the book's title comes at least partially from a lyric of his), as being in a long tradition in bemoaning the loss of an Arcadian ideal. Sorry if that comes across as pretentious but listen to the lyrics of this which describe aspects of an essential English condition and in some ways prefigure the Brexit moment.
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