A contrast between country
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times. Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
If from poetry we
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. Raymond Williams
What is often being
What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies. Raymond Williams
A very large part
A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants…In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants. Raymond Williams
Most works of art
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity. Raymond Williams
It wasn’t idealism that
It wasn’t idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute. Raymond Williams
Country’ and ‘city’ are
Country’ and ‘city’ are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, ‘country’ is both a nation and a part of a ‘land’; ‘the country’ can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long … Read more
It is not primarily
It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process. Raymond Williams
Every aspect of personal
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. Raymond Williams
Once we begin to
Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic. Raymond Williams