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William Morris (1834-96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.
List of contents
Introduction. Visions Not Dreams: Morris as Designer, Socialist, Entrepreneur, Poet . . .
Florence S. Boos
Part I: Morris’s Life, Family, and Environs
1. Morris’s Biographies
Michael Robertson
2 Business in the Creative Life of William Morris
Charles Harvey, Jon Press and Mairi Maclean
3. Morris, Family, and the Woman Question
Florence S. Boos
4. 'Kelmscott Manor. Mr Morris’s Country Place' (1871–1896)
Julia Griffin
5. 'What came we forth for to see that our hearts are so hot with desire': Morris and Iceland
Martin Stott
Part II: Art: Preservation, Interior Design, and Adaptations
6. Morris and Architecture
Christopher Miele
7. William Morris and Stained Glass
Jim Cheshire
8. William Morris and Interior Design
Margaretta S. Frederick
9. William Morris and the Culture Industry: Appropriation, Art, Critique
Compiled by David Mabb
Part III: Literature: Poetry, Art, Translation, and Fantasy
10. A Question of Ornament: Poetry and the (Lesser) Arts
Elizabeth Helsinger
11. Making Pictures: Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and Its Reception
David Latham
12. William Morris and the Classical Tradition
William Whitla
13 A Very Animated Conversation on Icelandic Matters: The Saga Translations of William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon
Paul Acker
14. Rewilding Morris: Wilderness and the Wild in the Last Romances
Phillippa Bennett
15. Windy, Tangible, Resonant Worlds: The Nonhuman Fantasy of William Morris
John Plotz
Part IV: Literature and Socialism
16. William Morris and British Politics: From the Liberal Party to the Socialist League
Frank C. Sharp
17. News from Nowhere in the Museum of Literary Interpretations
Tony Pinkney
18. Literature and Socialism of the Commonweal
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
19. Desire and Necessity: William Morris and Nature
Patrick O’Sullivan
20. Morris and Marxist Theory
Owen Holland
Part V: Books: Collecting and Design
21 William Morris’s Book Collecting
Yuri Cowan
22. William Morris and the Kelmscott Press: Towards an Aesthetics of Environment
Nicholas Frankel
About the author
Florence S. Boos is the author of two books on Morris’s poetry. She has also edited several of his works, and is the general editor of the William Morris Archive.
Summary
William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice.
