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Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

T.S. Eliot

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'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

Format:: paper

Pages:: 128 pages

Publication:: 1973

Publisher:: Faber & Faber

Edition:: 1st Edition Thus.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0571063136

ISBN13:: 9780571063130

kindle Asin:: B00IQYQWBI

Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

T.S. Eliot

3.67/5 (268 ratings)

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'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

Format:: paper

Pages:: 128 pages

Publication:: 1973

Publisher:: Faber & Faber

Edition:: 1st Edition Thus.

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0571063136

ISBN13:: 9780571063130

kindle Asin:: B00IQYQWBI

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