"If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to fi…"

"We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle …"

"The shaping influence of economic change can of course be distinguished, as most notably in the period with which thi…"

"My own view is that if, in a socialist society, the basic cultural skills are made widely available, and the channels…"

"Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen …"

"The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide."

"Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language."

"It is then in making hope practical, rather than despair convincing, that we must resume and change and extend our ca…"

"It is as if a really secure nationalism, already in possession of its nation-state, can fail to see itself as 'nation…"

"Real independence is a time of new and active creation: people sure enough of themselves to discard their baggage; kn…"