The Country and the City

'Country' and 'City' are powerful words meaning different things to all of us, depending on where we live. They conjure up potent memories, associations, myths, dreams and images. Many of these images are expressed in poetry, painting, novels, postcards and, most recently. advertising. But how truthful are they? What do history and literature tell us about the way country and city actually relate? Raymond Williams believes that to separate one from the other is false. It distorts the way we see the past and confuses the way we plan our future.