tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post2831704694009307116..comments2024-03-05T02:37:43.002-08:00Comments on william morris unbound: Hyndman and Morris in CambridgeTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-6548294012797945472017-03-29T10:05:41.204-07:002017-03-29T10:05:41.204-07:00Thanks for the intriguing suggestion, and it's...Thanks for the intriguing suggestion, and it's true that I have rather let the creative writing emphasis of this blog lapse for a while - so you nicely revive it for me! But, turning up my copy of 'Politics and Letters', I note that Williams remarks about his idea for a novel on the Oxford group that "I then found the familar problem that if I was to pursue this project with enough people, the result would be an impossibly long novel" (p.285). If that was true with his half dozen or so characters, how would it work out with thirty-seven different figures to pursue?!Tony Pinkneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-8596318963969045182017-03-27T12:01:00.266-07:002017-03-27T12:01:00.266-07:00Tony, why not write up the story of those 37 radic...Tony, why not write up the story of those 37 radical students (as you have often recommended in this blog) in creative writing mode rather than in standard scholarly terms? Raymond Williams in ‘Politics and Letters’ talks about wanting to write a novel following through the careers of a group of six radical Oxford students of the 1950s, so how about a much more complex, much more multi-voiced version of that kind of novel following the subsequent trajectories of all 37 Cambridge youngsters who backed Morris and Hyndman that day?Koticknoreply@blogger.com