The Romances Of William Morris

Author : Amanda Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521154925
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romances of William Morris written by Amanda Hodgson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1987 book investigates the dismissal of William Morris's romances as self-indulgent fantasy, looking at the ways in which our sense of the 'escapism' of Morris's fairy-tale writing can be modified or expanded when seen in relation to the development of his imagination in other spheres, both political and creative.

Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571174959
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Morris written by Fiona MacCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, the essential biography of the father of the Arts and Crafts movement. The author, Fiona MacCarthy, is the curator of the National Portrait Gallery's 2014-15 exhibition Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy.'One of the finest biographies ever published in this country' A. S. Byatt Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the Victorian era. But his genius was so many-sided and so profound that its full extent has rarely been grasped. Many people may find it hard to believe that the greatest English designer of his time, possibly of all time, could also be internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement, and could have been ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning.With penetrating insight, Fiona MacCarthy has managed to encompass all the different facets of Morris's complex character, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry and books, and as a poet, novelist and translator; his psychology and his emotional life; his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer; and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. Fiona MacCarthy's skilful drawing together of these disparate elements makes for a comprehensive and compelling biography.

Author : William Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351859005
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to William Morris written by Florence S. Boos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.JK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old French Romances written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carole G. Silver
Publisher : Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of William Morris written by Carole G. Silver and published by Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Early Romances of William Morris written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Romances Of William Morris In Prose And Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
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Download or read book Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse written by William Morris and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482741
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book The Wood Beyond the World written by William Morris and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter’s quest for the visionary Maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to emotional fulfillment. Set in Morris’s imaginative recreation of a medieval world, the novel is full of vivid imagery and surprising emotional realism. This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.