{"product_id":"2026100011040-secondhand-early-poems-of-william-morris","title":"Early Poems Of William Morris","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Boards: fair with some marks and specks; slight discolouration on rear board; light bumping on spine and corners. Binding: remains tight; illustrated endpapers. Pages: yellowed with some foxing on prelims and book block; 16 tipped in colour plates with original tissue guards. Markings: gifter's inscription on endpaper. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets of the Victorian era channelled the medieval world with such breathtaking conviction as William Morris, and Early Poems of William Morris brings together the works that first announced his extraordinary genius to the world. This beautifully illustrated volume presents a selection of Morris's foundational verse — including celebrated pieces from his landmark 1858 collection The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems — suffused with themes of chivalric romance, Arthurian legend, and a yearning for a lost, pre-industrial age of craft and beauty. The lush illustrations by Florence Harrison, herself a celebrated Art Nouveau artist, complement the verse with a visual sumptuousness that mirrors the text's own ornate sensibility.\n\nMorris writes with a density of imagery and a musicality of language that sets him apart from his Pre-Raphaelite contemporaries, conjuring worlds of tapestry and tournament, of doomed knights and languishing maidens, all rendered with a passionate intensity that never descends into mere pastiche. His poetry stands as both a critique of the modern industrial age and an act of imaginative resurrection, a determination to re-enchant a world he saw as irrevocably diminished. Harrison's intricate, sinuous artwork — perfectly suited to the Arts and Crafts aesthetic that Morris himself helped to forge — makes this 1914 Blackie \u0026amp; Son edition a true collector's artefact: a book that is itself a work of art. For any lover of Victorian poetry, Pre-Raphaelite art, or the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, this volume is an essential and deeply rewarding encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572266930395,"sku":"2026100011040-SECONDHAND","price":450.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/46562f2c-ad5b-4dcf-b72f-79b5b2165c56.png?v=1791166145","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011040-secondhand-early-poems-of-william-morris","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}