Book Details
- Paperback
- 450 pages
- ISBN 978-1-905762-99-6
Publisher Parthian
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Raymond Williams (1921-1988) was the most influential socialist intellectual 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. Now, for the first time, in this highly original and riveting biographical study Dai Smith uncovers how the life is indeed an explanation of this achievement.
Written by the Raymond Williams Research Chair, University of Wales, using a rich array of material from Williams' hitherto unused personal Papers.
“A Superb Biography.” — Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
“It is a remarkable piece of work and will henceforth be essential to the understanding of the making of Raymond Williams.”— Eric Hobsbawm
The Guardian Book of the Week Saturday 24 May 2008
“The biographer's greatest achievement is to find his own discerning route through what often seems to be a jungle of contradiction.... This is a worthwhile book and a very good one... Smith does especially well to illustrate with new and formidable evidence that Williams's enduring appeal is down to his democratic instincts of generosity.” — David Hare
“Dai Smith has indeed produced a seminal biography… sheds new and revealing light… deftly managed to move beyond the particulars, to communicate a profound sense of how…his subject’s life was experienced.” — Daniel G Williams, Open Democracy
Written by the Raymond Williams Research Chair, University of Wales, using a rich array of material from Williams' hitherto unused personal Papers.
“A Superb Biography.” — Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
“It is a remarkable piece of work and will henceforth be essential to the understanding of the making of Raymond Williams.”— Eric Hobsbawm
The Guardian Book of the Week Saturday 24 May 2008
“The biographer's greatest achievement is to find his own discerning route through what often seems to be a jungle of contradiction.... This is a worthwhile book and a very good one... Smith does especially well to illustrate with new and formidable evidence that Williams's enduring appeal is down to his democratic instincts of generosity.” — David Hare
“Dai Smith has indeed produced a seminal biography… sheds new and revealing light… deftly managed to move beyond the particulars, to communicate a profound sense of how…his subject’s life was experienced.” — Daniel G Williams, Open Democracy
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