William Morris: Prose, Verse, Lectures And Essays
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few figures in Victorian England burned with as fierce and multifaceted a brilliance as William Morris — poet, craftsman, socialist, and visionary — and this landmark Nonesuch Library anthology, edited by G. D. H. Cole, brings together the full sweep of his creative and intellectual life in a single, indispensable volume. Spanning prose narratives, verse, public lectures, and critical essays, the collection presents Morris not merely as a decorative artist but as a thinker of radical depth, one who argued passionately that beauty and labour were inseparable, and that the ugliness of industrial capitalism was a moral catastrophe as much as an aesthetic one. Edited with scholarly care by the renowned economist and historian G. D. H. Cole, this anthology illuminates the extraordinary range of Morris's output, from the lush medievalism of his early romances to the incandescent political rhetoric of his later socialist writings. Morris's prose style moves with a rhythmic, almost tapestry-like richness, while his verse carries the weight of Old Norse saga and Arthurian legend reimagined for a modern conscience. For readers who know Morris only through his wallpaper patterns or textile designs, this volume reveals the man behind the motifs — a restless, utopian intelligence whose questions about art, society, and the purpose of human making feel more urgent than ever.
Author: William Morris
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few figures in Victorian England burned with as fierce and multifaceted a brilliance as William Morris — poet, craftsman, socialist, and visionary — and this landmark Nonesuch Library anthology, edited by G. D. H. Cole, brings together the full sweep of his creative and intellectual life in a single, indispensable volume. Spanning prose narratives, verse, public lectures, and critical essays, the collection presents Morris not merely as a decorative artist but as a thinker of radical depth, one who argued passionately that beauty and labour were inseparable, and that the ugliness of industrial capitalism was a moral catastrophe as much as an aesthetic one. Edited with scholarly care by the renowned economist and historian G. D. H. Cole, this anthology illuminates the extraordinary range of Morris's output, from the lush medievalism of his early romances to the incandescent political rhetoric of his later socialist writings. Morris's prose style moves with a rhythmic, almost tapestry-like richness, while his verse carries the weight of Old Norse saga and Arthurian legend reimagined for a modern conscience. For readers who know Morris only through his wallpaper patterns or textile designs, this volume reveals the man behind the motifs — a restless, utopian intelligence whose questions about art, society, and the purpose of human making feel more urgent than ever.