Assorted words from 'the last of the great European male revolutionary socialist intellectuals' (Cornel West): Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
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POUM Antifascist Militia card issued to American marxist Harry Milton. On 20 May 1937, Milton saved George Orwell's life after the writer was shot through neck by sniper on the Aragón front, by quickly stopping bleeding. In Catalan reflecting party's strong (Marxist) Cat identity
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With its sheltering mountains, the Glynmawr valley lay broad and green. To a stranger Glynmawr would seem not a village but just thinly populated farming country
- Border Country, 1960
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15 Nov 2024
In 1791 [Jeremy] Bentham defined the anarchist as one who 'denies the validity of the law...and calls upon all mankind to rise up in a mass, and resist the execution of it', a sense again near that of early [definition of] democrat
- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983
#anarchism
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14 Nov 2024
There is no single relation between the nature of a society and the character of its literature, but there are significant and possibly significant relations which seem to vary with the actual history
- The Long Revolution, 1961
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13 Nov 2024
For thirty miles he had been able to look back at the mountains, at the blue peaks and the long grey ridge, gradually lowering in the sky. Now, when the last contact had gone, he looked at a different country, flat and open
- Border Country, 1960
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12 Nov 2024
Most of T.S. Eliot's mature work was in drama: in the plays from 'Murder in the Cathedral' (1935) to 'The Elder Statesman' (1958)
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1968
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2 Nov 2024
**Copy of Border Country in the Marie Curie charity shop in Bracla, Bridgend
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The word [Genius] is now so widely used to describe any and all kinds of exceptional ability that survivals of the older sense of characteristic disposition are often ambiguous
- Keywords, second ed., 1983
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For even an institution as wholeheartedly commercial in production and distribution as the cinema, it had been possible, and indeed remains normal, to watch a film as a whole, in an undisturbed sequence
- Television: Technology and Cultural Form, 2nd ed., 1990
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7 Nov 2024
At last Will took the note and scribbled:
I cannot sign,
I cannot write,
I lost my pen
Last Sunday night
Brychan wrinkled his nose disapprovingly, then folded the paper and carefully passed it back
- Border Country, 1960
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6 Nov 2024
A note had been passed to them, from Phyllis Rees:
Sweetheart now, who you may be,
Sign and pass it back to me.
This was usual, but they had to think of a good answer. They looked at each other, widening heir eyes
- Border Country, 1960
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29 Oct 2024
A skilled theatrical craftsman might well remain satisfied with such a situation, and go on writing plays for stock. But #Ibsen was always an artist, for whom the communication of significant experience must be the primary concern
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
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5 Nov 2024
Huckleberry Finn, in its middle sections, creates a general reality within which the personal narrative gains breadth
- The Long Revolution, 1961
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2 Nov 2024
The objective viewpoint, in Pirandello, as in later writers like Ionesco, is a total criticism of the possibility of a knowable world: the centre of what is now called 'absurdism' though many essentially different things are confused with it
- Drama From Ibsen to Brecht, 1973
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