Raymond Williams

Quotes

• “If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”
• “We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.”
• “Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”
• “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 campaigns.”

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Key facts

Born

Raymond Henry Williams , ( 1921-08-31 ) 31 August 1921, Pandy, Monmouthshire , Wales

Died

26 January 1988 (1988-01-26) (aged 66), Saffron Walden , Essex, England

Alma mater

Trinity College, Cambridge

School or tradition

Marxist sociology

Institutions

University of Cambridge

Notable students

Terry Eagleton , David Hare

Notable ideas

Cultural materialism , Mobile privatisation

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Raymond Williams At Saffron Walden.jpg

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