Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Tradition, Literature, Education or educators, Art or artists, Christianity
Form and Content
Thomas Stearns Eliot’s Harvard University education, his alienation from his birthplace (St. Louis, Missouri), his repudiation of his family’s Unitarianism, his reputation as a man of letters, his installation as a member of the Church of England, and his renunciation of American citizenship all contribute to the fabric of Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. Eliot, a consummate master and jealous guardian of the English language, preferred British English to American English; he preferred the older British elitist education to American...
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