Raymond Williams

Raymond Williams, Welshman, Communist and author of Drama from Ibsen to Eliot, enlarged and re-titled, Drama from Ibsen to Brecht was Professor of English Literature in Univesity of Cambridge in early 1950s when among his students was Omar Pound, son of Ezra Pound, poet, Fascist and provoker. Hussam AlKhatib, a Palestinian who lives in Ann Arbor for the benefits of democracy and works over here in Doha for the profits of petrodollars, was also a student of Williams'. He told me that one day Williams invited him and other students to his Cambridge rooms where when they first entered they saw Williams at the sink washing with his hands his blue collar blouse