Raymond 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 Now, for the first time, making full use of Williams private and unpublished papers and by placing him in a wide social and cultural landscape, Dai Smith, in this highly original and riveting biographical study, uncovers how the life to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.
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'Carrying an impressive deal of intensive research lightly... the portraiture throughout is graphic, richly detailed and subtly shaded in these packed and lucidly written pages' --New Welsh Review
'It is a remarkable piece of work and will henceforth be essential to the understanding of the making of Raymond Williams.' --The Guardian(Book of the Week)
Becomes at once the authoritative account. Smith has done all we can ask the historian as biographer to do. Stefan Collini, London Review of Books --London Review of Books --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'It is a remarkable piece of work and will henceforth be essential to the understanding of the making of Raymond Williams.' --The Guardian(Book of the Week)
Becomes at once the authoritative account. Smith has done all we can ask the historian as biographer to do. Stefan Collini, London Review of Books --London Review of Books --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Dai Smith is Professor in the Cultural History of Wales at Swansea University.He has written extensively about modern Wales,including Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales (1993) and Wales: A Question of History(1998). He is Series Editor of the Library of Wales And currently Chair of Art Council Wales.
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