The Polemics of Imagination

The Polemics of Imagination Synopsis

Written over a fifteen year period, one which almost exactly coincides with the Thatcher era, these essays offer a personal critique of education, culture and society in modern Britain. Abbs' call for a restoration of the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions to our lives is persuasively argued over four main sections which address Post-modernism, Education, the Art of Autobiography and Contemporary Poetry. Employing his own experiences as well as illuminating analysis of Eliot, Pound, Edmund Gosse and others, he has produced a remarkable collection.