Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams (1921 - 1988) was a highly influential Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge and became Professor of Drama at the University of Cambridge (1974 - 1983). A committed socialist, he was greatly interested in the relationships between language, literature, and society and published many books, essays and articles on these and other issues. His books include:

Reading and Criticism (1950)
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot (1952)
Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958)
The Long Revolution (1961)
(1974)
Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society (1976)
People of the Black Mountains, a semi-fictional history
Marxism and Literature (1977)
Politics and Letters: Interviews with "New Left Review (1981)
The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists
A trilogy of novels, Border Country (1960), Second Generation (1964), and The Fight for Manod (1979)
Studies in social history, politics, cultural studies and communications.

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