Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot (English) Paperback Book

Description: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 flourishSo 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 Notes Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 Author Biography Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. His early poetry was profoundly influenced by the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire and Laforgue. In his academic studies he specialised in philosophy and logic. His doctoral thesis was on F. H. Bradley. He settled in England in 1915, the year in which he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and also met his contemporary Ezra Pound for the first time. After teaching for a year or so he joined Lloyds Bank in the City of London in 1917, the year in which he published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations. In 1919 Poems was hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. His first collection of essays, The Sacred Wood, appeared in 1920. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922, the same year as James Joyces Ulysses. The poem was included in the first issue of his jou Promotional Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is T. S. Eliots canonical essay on the culture of his time and place, and the notion of culture itself. Long Description 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 flourishSo 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 Promotional "Headline" Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is T. S. Eliots canonical essay on the culture of his time and place, and the notion of culture itself. Details ISBN0571063136 Author T.S. Eliot Year 1973 ISBN-10 0571063136 ISBN-13 9780571063130 Format Paperback Publication Date 1973-01-01 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1888 Death 1965 Media Book Edition 1st Pages 128 Language English Publisher Faber & Faber Imprint Faber & Faber DEWEY 824 UK Release Date 1973-01-01 AU Release Date 1973-01-01 Edition Description Main Audience General NZ Release Date 2005-06-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:587716;

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