Raymond Williams: A Warrior's TaleRaymond Williams (1921-1988) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. From 1961, with the publication of The Long Revolution, his reputation was bound up with the theory and practice of Culture, as itself a social dynamic. However, Williams always considered that his critical and imaginative work formed an integral whole and that their complementary pattern was crucial to his personal intent and wider purpose. In particular, for him the appearance of the pathbreaking Culture and Society in 1958 and of his revelatory first novel Border Country in 1960 were twinned events. Now, for the first time, making full use of Williams' private and unpublished papers and by placing him in a wide social and cultural landscape, Dai Smith, in this highly original and riveting biographical study, uncovers how the life to 1961 is indeed an explanation of Raymond Williams' immense and connected creative and intellectual achievement. |
Contents
A Settlement | 16 |
A Schooling | 44 |
Nominally Connected Lives | 80 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abergavenny academic Adult Education Armoured Army Barnstaple Border Country Border Village British Brynllwyd Cambridge Chatto and Windus Collins common Communist Party contemporary critical Culture and Society diary drama early English Eric Hobsbawm essay experience F.R. Leavis father feel felt fiction film finally German Harry Price Harry Williams Hobsbawm I.A. Richards Ian Parsons Ibsen infantry intellectual Joy Williams June Labour later Leavis lectures Letter from Raymond literary literature lives Llwyn London Long Revolution looked Macbeth Mankowitz Matthew Michael Orrom Michael Pope moved Normandy novel October Oxford Pandy Paul Ramsay play Politics and Letters post-war Q Battery railway Ramsay Raymond Williams Ridyear RW Papers seemed sense September social story summer T.S. Eliot talk tank things thought town train troops turned tutors Twentyone typescript University Wales Welsh Wolf Mankowitz writing wrote