William Morris

By Arthur Clutton-Brock
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Through his eclecticism, William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most emblematic personalities of the nineteenth century. Painter, architect, poet and engineer, wielding the quill as well as the brush, he jolted Victorian society by discarding standards established by triumphant industry. His commitment to the writing of the Socialist Manifesto was the logical result of the revolution he personified in his habitat, the form of his design and the colours he used. Forerunner of twentieth-century designers, he co-founded with John Ruskin the Arts and Crafts movement. As an independent man, William Morris led the way to Art Nouveau and later Bauhaus. Through the essential body of his written and visual work, Arthur Clutton-Brock's masterwork deciphers the narrow relationship between ideals and creation, as well as between evolution and revolution.

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Length6 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1WILLIAM WILLIAM MORRIS MORRIS
2© Parkstone Press International, New York, USA
3Editor’s Note
4m
5of the past, either blankly inexpressive or pompously expressive of something which
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6change of air and scene.
7Hand-painted in blue and green on tin-glazed
8Introduction
9Hand-painted tiles.
10Old Hall, Queens College, Cambridge.
11Introduction
12only a means to that end.
13their origin.
14f
15Childhood and Youth
16future life.
17The Early Years, A Promising Future
18Exeter College, Oxford with the
19The Early Years, A Promising Future
20almost every day with a new poem.”
21The Early Years, A Promising Future
22Tate Gallery, London.
23The Influence of Rossetti
24works of art.
25Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
26Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
27were Arthur Hughes, Spencer-Stanhope, Val Prinsep and John Hungerford Pollen, all
28Ah ! Qu’elle est belle La Marguerite,’
29The Early Years, A Promising Future
30The Founding of the Firm
31own mind beyond happiness to a harder and lonelier task.
32Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire.
33submit to a morality of cowardice and cruel habits.
34high purpose.
35The Early Years, A Promising Future
36Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
37as a craftsman.
38III. Stained glass, especially with reference to its harmony with mural
39Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
40of a good picture.
41rose-trellis or daisy papers, inimitable.
42otherwise practice his art.
43William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, London.
44The Early Years, A Promising Future
45Morris as a Romantic Poet
46Belle Dame sans Merci, or like Coleridge’s Christabel
47And not a moonbeam enters here.
48Tate Gallery, London.
49by the Gothic.
50The Early Years, A Promising Future

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