Lytton Strachey

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Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian

Eminent Victorians is a English biography collection by Lytton Strachey. THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it.

"Den engelska reformationen var inte enbart en religiös omvälvning, den fick också social betydelse."Stracheys porträtt av Jungfrudrottningen i Elizabeth och Essex (1928) har blivit accepterat som nationalporträtt - och detta trots den våg av dokumentation som sköljt fram sedan Strachey skrev och som inte var tillgänglig under hans livstid. Förbluffande är den insikt med vilken han skildrar den engelska renässansens blandning av grymhet och idealism, och han presenterar den "tragiska historien" såsom ett elizabethanskt drama som i likhet med samtida tragedier är fullt av förfärliga och magnifika dödsstunder.