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The Routledge Companion to William Morris
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.
This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the
impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels,
family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations,
political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides
valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on
its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches
to important aspects of its topic.
Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice
make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry,
translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and
Victorian and utopian studies.
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The last utopians : four late nineteenth-century visionaries and their legacy
The Last Utopians delves into the biographies of four key figures--Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman--who lived during an extraordinary period of literary and social experimentation. The publication of Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888 opened the floodgates of an unprecedented wave of utopian writing. Morris, the Arts and Crafts pioneer, was a committed socialist whose News from Nowhere envisions a workers' Arcadia. Carpenter boldly argued that homosexuals constitute a utopian vanguard. Gilman, a women's rights activist and the author of \"The Yellow Wallpaper,\" wrote numerous utopian fictions, including Herland, a visionary tale of an all-female society. These writers, Robertson shows, shared a belief in radical equality, imagining an end to class and gender hierarchies and envisioning new forms of familial and romantic relationships. They held liberal religious beliefs about a universal spirit uniting humanity. They believed in social transformation through nonviolent means and were committed to living a simple life rooted in a restored natural world. And their legacy remains with us today, as Robertson describes in entertaining firsthand accounts of contemporary utopianism, ranging from Occupy Wall Street to a Radical Faerie retreat.
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History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870
Florence S. Boos'sHistory and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855-1870examines Morris's literary development in the context of his Victorian contemporaries, probing the cross-influences of temperament, cultural ambiance, early reader reactions, and his restless search for an authentic poetic voice. Boos argues that to understand this development, we must understand how Morris reinterpreted and transformed medieval history and legend into modern guise. In doing so, Morris preserved a duality of privacy and detachment-the intimacy of personal lyrics and the detachment (and silences) of historical judgment.Boos's study is the first to utilize surviving original manuscripts, periodical publications, and poems unpublished during Morris's lifetime.History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855-1870traces Morris's literary evolution through his juvenile poems; the essays, poems, and prose romances of theOxford and Cambridge
Magazine; the startlingly original verses ofThe Defence of Guenevere; and the ten years of experimentation that preceded his two best-known epics,The Life and Death
of JasonandThe Earthly Paradise. This book explores the young poet's successive efforts to find a balancing ethical framework through poetry-a framework that was at once a motivation for action and a template for authentic, shared popular art, one that reemerges forcefully in his later work.
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Writing on the Image
William Morris was a Victorian master of all trades, standing at the forefront of five historic movements in western culture. As the author of The Defence of Guenevere in 1858, he wrote the first book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry. Co-founder of Morris & Co. in 1861, he was the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, designing textiles, wallpapers, and stained glass. Editor of The Commonweal for the Socialist League in the 1880s and lecturing at political rallies, he was the leader of the socialist movement for revolution in Britain. Founder of the Kelmscott Press in 1891, he was the leader of the private-press movement with his Kelmscott Chaucer among the most beautiful books ever printed. The innovative author of eight prose romances in the 1890s, he was the leading force in shifting the genre of fiction from the novel to the romance, the primary influence on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Writing on the Image is a collection of essays that showcases the varied canon of Morris. The essays demonstrate how the most revolutionary artist, writer, and socialist of the nineteenth century now stands at the centre of interdisciplinary studies in the twenty-first century, challenging academics and artisans alike to pursue an ideal community of scholarship, craftsmanship, and subversive statesmanship.
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William Morris
Considered one of the most prominent actors of the Victorian era, William Morris (1843-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, and editor, and did not hesitate to express his socialist political views, which at the time were frowned upon by the establishment. His encounters with Rossetti and Burne-Jones, as well as his religious studies, made him a man of manifold talents. From this mixture of genres, William Morris would go on to construct a remarkable career, applying his ideas through various enterprises he established under the name of the 'William Morris Companies', revolutionising both interior decorating and architecture. He quickly understood the advantage of industrial production techniques, which he used to design his creations. Together with John Ruskin, he also became a co-founder of the Arts and Crafts movement. Despite his admiration for Ruskin, he did not hesitate to publish his own poems in 1858 in his publishing house, Kelmscott Press. His fascination with the Pre-Raphaelite painters lead him to push aside the canons of English art, and, under the influence of Ruskin, to launch the rediscovery of the medieval style of decoration. While drawing tapestries, carpets, glasswork, and other fine elements of interior decoration, he became a fervent defender of socialism and participated actively in the Socialist Democratic Federation, which later became known as the Socialist League. William Morris transformed his dreams and ideals into the deeds that still inspire our admiration today. Through a series of illustrations, this work examines the scope of Morris’s talent, which continues to have a major influence on our daily lives today.
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William Morris
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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An \idle singer\ and his audience : a study of William Morris's poetic reputation in England, 1858-1900
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An \Idle Singer\ and his audience
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