Category: Poetry
There is, perhaps, no single work by William Morris that stands out as a masterpiece in evidence of his individual genius. He was not impelled to give peculiar expression to his own personality. His writing was seldom emotionally autobiographic as Rossetti's always was, his pa...
The end with Morris seemed to come suddenly, although for months and even for years there had been warnings of its approach. He had enjoyed--and greatly enjoyed--unusual strengt...
6. CHAPTER VI.Intent as he was upon the artistic success of his work in decoration, and ardent in giving time and thought to achieving this success, Morris was far from excluding poetry from...
7. CHAPTER VII.In the autumn of 1876, just after the publication of _Sigurd the Volsung_, Morris took his first dip in the ocean of public affairs, the waves of which were presently almost to...
4. CHAPTER IV.The formation of the firm of "Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, & Company," as it was first called, appears to have been highly incidental in character, despite the assertion of Morri...
9. CHAPTER IX.Despite the large amount of time and comparatively unproductive thought given by Morris to his Socialism, the period of his greatest activity in this direction was not without r...
2. CHAPTER II.Like the majority of the students who went up to Oxford in the fifties, Morris matriculated with the definite intention of taking holy orders. Unlike the majority, he was impell...
3. CHAPTER III.Although a blight of discouragement seems to have fallen upon Morris under Rossetti's tuition, there were some blithe compensations. Not the least of these was the fitting up of...
1. CHAPTER I.There is, perhaps, no single work by William Morris that stands out as a masterpiece in evidence of his individual genius. He was not impelled to give peculiar expression to his...
8. CHAPTER VIII.By the latter part of 1884 the political agitations and internal differences in the Federation, now called The Social Democratic Federation, became so violent as to force Morris...
10. CHAPTER X.Although Morris turned with what seemed a sudden inspiration to the study of typography, it was, as we have already seen, no less than his other occupations a direct outcome of...
5. CHAPTER V.While Morris was developing the industries of the firm with essential steadiness, despite the rapid transitions from one pursuit to another, he was going through a variety of pe...
11. CHAPTER XI.The writings of Morris's later years consist, as we have seen, chiefly of prose romances. The little group beginning with _The House of the Wolfings_ and ending with _The Sunder...