Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

Author：T.S. Eliot

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: Faber & Faber ; Main edition ( 1973-01-01 )

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0571063136

ISBN-13: 978-0571063130

Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 1 x 20 cm

內容簡介

'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, 19th-century Gothic churches and the music of Elgar. The reader can make his own list ...'

In this famous essay T. S. Eliot examines the principal uses of the word, and the conditions in which culture itself can flourish.

'So rich in ideas that it is difficult to select two or three of them for comment ... it is a natural history of culture.' Sunday Times

Book Des cription

Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is T. S. Eliot's canonical essay on the culture of his time and place, and the notion of 'culture' itself.

作者簡介

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.