“... in terms of industrial and union action, which I recognised, in miniature, from Bouillon. Reading Raymond Williams at university in the 1980s and 1990s, I never heard in lectures that he was Welsh, or that his fictional writings were located – in all the senses of that word – in a time and place and culture. ...”

“... at the movement’s heart, and the troubling persistence of racial inequality in modern America. Raymond Arsenault’s compelling history of one of the most important battles of the struggle focuses on eight months in 1961 – a moment when Jim Crow seemed to be as entrenched as ever. In the five years following Montgomery, the civil rights movement ...”

“... Kenneth Koch (pronounced ‘coke’) could do a mean impersonation of William Carlos Williams. ‘This is Just to Say’, Williams’s note asking forgiveness for eating the plums in the icebox which ‘you were probably/saving/for breakfast’ on the grounds that they were ‘so sweet/and so cold’, gets the Koch treatment in ‘Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams’: I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer ...”

“... Materialism’, much of its activity remains most fruitfully grounded in the work of Raymond Williams. Both Evans and Dollimore offer powerful examples of the unsettling purchase this newly historicised and politicised British criticism can obtain on the Elizabethan past and the Thatcherised present. Latterly, British concerns have started ...”

“... done this, we must suspect him of being an unwitting advocate of the brand of modernisation that Raymond Williams described as mobile privatisation: ‘home’ as that convenient, credit-funded place where we go to enjoy ‘cosiness and robots’ in front of a television screen that occasionally brings us distancing views of a nation that has abandoned ...”

“... central to the New Left, what with Hoggart’s Uses of Literacy (1957) and the work of Raymond Williams, who gave Hall two chapters of Culture and Society to read while it was still in draft. It was Hoggart who headhunted Hall to come to the CCCS in Birmingham in 1964 as his assistant, but it was ...”

“... the social imaginary had better be called traffic, he quotes, to wonderful effect, a passage of Raymond Williams from The Country and the City: Traffic is not only a technique; it is a form of consciousness and a form of social relations … It is impossible to read the early descriptions of crowded metropolitan streets – the people as isolated ...”

“... WEA tutors in the immediate postwar years emerged, including Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams.)Polanyi took these teaching duties very seriously, and when, after four years, he departed for temporary posts at colleges in the United States, he took with him the elaborate lecture notes he had prepared for his classes. His wife later ...”

“... It was a broad collective, with more than five hundred members by 1974, including Doris Lessing, Raymond Williams, Anthony Burgess, B.S. Johnson, Harold Pinter, Ted Hughes, Kingsley Amis and the adamantine Murdoch. In 1979, the Public Lending Right was passed by Parliament (today, authors receive around 9.55p per loan, capped at £6,600 a year). Then ...”

“... of the biblical curse about the sins of the fathers is sublimely funny, and not unsubtle. Raymond Williams, who did so much to reorient serious study of Hardy, mysteriously declared that his dialect and rustic comedy was one of the least successful aspects of Hardy’s work, but Hardy rarely plays these people just for laughs. In The Return of ...”

“... and disdaining democracy. However, Eagleton does return with approval to the arguments of Raymond Williams’s Modern Tragedy (1966). There, Williams (whom Eagleton once notoriously deemed a ‘left Leavisite’) told us that most theories of tragedy have been little more than ideology, that tragedy does indeed ...”

“... on fixing money rates of pay, Ian Little on ‘Social Democracy and the International Economy’, Raymond Plant on ‘Democratic Socialism and Equality’ and Colin Crouch on public expenditure – serve more appetising dishes. And they all show, albeit in some cases only by implication, that Crosland’s revisionism now needs revising. One reason, as Colin ...”

“... likely to be a woman than a man.But A Scots Quair also develops another, quite different arc, as Raymond Williams recognised in The Country and the City (1973): it follows ‘the classical historical process’ of his study, from peasant to proletarian, Kinraddie to Duncairn. This process, as ...”

“... as if they were willed fabrications, intentional structures made by very discriminating people (Raymond Williams, comparably sophisticated as an analyst, always seemed to be peering into texts from the grand outside). This was what made his late book on Shakespeare’s Language so good; he is not afraid to talk about Shakespeare’s authorial ...”

“... and landscape. Far from offering the viewpoint of someone who was a ‘peasant himself’, as Raymond Williams has argued, Hardy saw the countryside from the vantage-point of a grammar-school educated, professionally-trained and socially-estranged intellectual writing for a London audience. Snell’s reading of Hardy is a salutary reminder of the ...”