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“... still glittered.Arise, England is a book bedazzled by the figure of the monarch. The authors, Caroline Burt and Richard Partington, historians at Cambridge, insist that stories about kings, ‘with all their drama, intrigue, personal triumph and tragedy, are inextricably intertwined with the grand narrative of the emergence of the English ...”

“... mentioning the German Japanese writer Yoko Tawada and the French Norwegian (based in London) Caroline Bergvall alongside that earlier, more self-confident polyglottist, Ezra Pound. Perloff finds a precursor for all this in Walter Benjamin, who during the 1930s collected thousands of quotations (mostly in French) about Paris, its glass and iron shopping ...”