Written on the Water
The very word "culture" has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain''s imperial command of the sea. Instead of locating the culture idea’s beginnings in the dynamic between the country and the city, Samuel Bake...
The very word "culture" has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain''s imperial command of the sea. Instead of locating the culture idea’s beginnings in the dynamic between the country and the city, Samuel Bake...
