| Author: | William Morris | ISBN: | 1230000245120 |
| Publisher: | Sur | Publication: | June 6, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | William Morris |
| ISBN: | 1230000245120 |
| Publisher: | Sur |
| Publication: | June 6, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.
Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End (1896). He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with that organization over goals and methods by the end of the decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. Kelmscott was devoted to the publishing of limited-edition, illuminated-style print books. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.
The Well at the World's End
News from Nowhere
The Wood Beyond the World
The House of the Wolfings
The Hollow Land
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
The Roots of the Mountains
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Child Christopher
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson
The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men
Signs of Change
Poems by the Way
The Pilgrims of Hope
Chants for Socialists
The Sundering Flood
The Earthly Paradise
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.
Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End (1896). He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with that organization over goals and methods by the end of the decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. Kelmscott was devoted to the publishing of limited-edition, illuminated-style print books. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.
The Well at the World's End
News from Nowhere
The Wood Beyond the World
The House of the Wolfings
The Hollow Land
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
The Roots of the Mountains
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Child Christopher
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson
The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men
Signs of Change
Poems by the Way
The Pilgrims of Hope
Chants for Socialists
The Sundering Flood
The Earthly Paradise
