"This astute and long overdue reappraisal provides a lucid overview and a wealth of contextual information. An excellent resource." -- Shannon L. Rogers, Saint Josepha s University, Editor, Newsletter of the William Morris Society in the United States "through his insightful introduction and careful selection of documents, Arata] has created an invaluable edition of News from Nowhere." -- Peter Stansky, Stanford University
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"This astute and long overdue reappraisal provides a lucid overview and a wealth of contextual information. An excellent resource." -- Shannon L...
Defining beauty in art as the result of man's pleasure in his work, the noted English poet, designer, craftsman and pioneer Socialist William Morris (1834-1896) spent most of his life enthusiastically expounding this view through his many attractive designs for interior furnishings. The present book faithfully reproduces 40 of the most celebrated examples of Morris's work, reprinting in full color all the color plates from The Art of William Morris, published by George Bell & Sons in 1897. Included in this splendid, ready-to-use archive are richly detailed wallpaper designs...
Defining beauty in art as the result of man's pleasure in his work, the noted English poet, designer, craftsman and pioneer Socialist William Morri...
News from Nowhere (1890), William Morris' most famous work, is a utopian picture of a future communist society, depicting a world in which capitalism has been abolished by a workers' revolution, and in which nature and society have become beautiful habitations for humanity. In an era that has seen the collapse of state socialism, Morris' damning critique of this conception, and his positing of a powerful alternative, are compelling reasons for paying attention to this classic of British socialism.
News from Nowhere (1890), William Morris' most famous work, is a utopian picture of a future communist society, depicting a world in which capitalism ...
This text presents a critical edition of The Earthly Paradise. A farsighted Victorian, William Morris was a pioneering socialist, book designer and decorative artist, founder of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and author of intense short lyrics, long poetic narratives, and utopian-socialist prose romances.
This text presents a critical edition of The Earthly Paradise. A farsighted Victorian, William Morris was a pioneering socialist, book designer and de...
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry he had better shut up, says William Morris (1834-1896). He was a brilliant designer, a political thinker and one of the most popular poets of his day. While his designs are still prized, his poetry fell for decades into neglect. Crafted and robust, his verse is something to be enjoyed, like other well-made objects. It is at the heart of his creative vision. This selection contains the best of his short poems, ranging from dramatic narratives with medieval settings to romantic lyrics, to Chants for Socialists. His most popular...
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry he had better shut up, says William Morris (1834-1896). He was a brilliant designer, ...
This is England -- but an England none have ever seen, and perhaps none will ever see: for it is a country of the future, when the blights of poverty and inequity have been corrected and cured, and when the sky-blackening industries of the Modern Age have been transformed . . .
Morris may have had his greatest influence on English and American culture through his extraordinary designs for wallpaper, furniture, and books. Yet his written works have retained a persistent life as well, attracting readers generation after generation, who find in his poems and novels the same sensibility, the...
This is England -- but an England none have ever seen, and perhaps none will ever see: for it is a country of the future, when the blights of poverty ...
A generation J.R.R.Tolkien, William Morris invented the modern heroic fantasy, popularized in Lord of the Rings. Although he is best known for The Wood Beyond the World, and The Well at World's End, this novel is actually his first heroic fantasy. The Glittering Plain is the flip side of Morris' famous Utopian novel News from Nowhere. Icelandic and epic in style and tone, it tells of a hero named Hallblithe and his saga to a place of eternal life in search for lost love. Not only is she not there, though . . . Hallblithe discovers it is an eternal life without meaning . . . and must escape...
A generation J.R.R.Tolkien, William Morris invented the modern heroic fantasy, popularized in Lord of the Rings. Although he is best known for The ...
This vintage book contains William Morris s 1867 poem, The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem . It was originally intended as a story to accompany The Earthly Paradise, a work presented as a poetic collection recounted by Greek travellers who encountered each other whilst seeking out immortality. It is the longest poem on Jason ever written and is the second longest work on the subject after Robert Graves Hercules, My Shipmate (1945). This volume is highly recommended for fans of Morris s work and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. William Morris (1834 1896) was a famous English...
This vintage book contains William Morris s 1867 poem, The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem . It was originally intended as a story to accompany The Ea...
The Well at the World's End was among the very first of its kind--it is an epic romance of duplicity, machination, passion, and wizardry, and is, in short, a vast odyssey into the weird. It is a beautifully rich fantasy, a vibrant fairy tale without fairies. It is the most entrancing of William Morris's late romances--part futuristic fantasy novel, part old-fashioned fairy tale. Morris writes his magic love story with a sense of color and pattern, and the sheer imaginative fervor of one of the most brilliant decorative artists that has ever lived. Newly designed and typeset in a modern...
The Well at the World's End was among the very first of its kind--it is an epic romance of duplicity, machination, passion, and wizardry, and is, in s...
