William Morris (1834-1896) was a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer and designer. This volume gives in detail the comments and observations that articulate Morris's problematic political and artistic stands and equally problematic position within the aesthetic movement as it developed in the 1890s. Also voiced are the complexities of his troubled marriage and his devotion to his daughters. However, dominating all these themes, are the Kelmscott Press and the biulding of Morris's library of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The letters in this volume record the way in which the Press became not only the centre of Morris's aesthetic ambitions and achievements, but also the site for his closest human relations and for much of his connecting with the makers of early modernism.
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The first of two volumes of letters from writer/designer William Morris to his colleagues--including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti--and loved ones. At one time or another, Morris was also an architect, a painter, a poet, a businessman, an interior decorator, a book illuminator, a furniture maker, a lecturer, a weaver, a magazine editor, a novelist, a Socialist campaigner, a translator, an essayist, a printer and a publisher. Known for his propensity to create beautiful objects and his inability to relax, let alone sit still, Morris' contributions to design and literature rank him in an English tradition with Blake and Dickens.
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In the combination of extreme clarity of detail and dreamlike vagueness in Morris's work we find a true visionary who takes his place in an English tradition with Blake, Turner, and Dickens. . . . There is a directness and simplicity of expression in his writing. . . .
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