William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise.
William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in 13 different crafts, some of them ancient, he became a great European pattern-designer. This volume illustrates the variety of Morris's prose, while focusing on the theme of earthly paradise.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in thirteen different crafts, some of them ancient ones that had died out, he became the greatest European pattern-designer since the Middle Ages. He was, besides, a campaigning socialist and a pioneering environmentalist, a lyric poet and a forceful journalist, a storyteller and a maker of fine books.
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Introduction Chronology Bibliographical Note Romance The Story of the Unknown Church A King's Lesson Two Extracts from A Dream of John Ball News from Nowhere Lectures The Lesser Arts Some Hints on Pattern-designing Useful Work versus Useless Toil The Hopes of Civilization Gothic Architecture Occasional Prose "Looking Backward": a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Under an Elm-tree; or, Thoughts in the Countryside Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin Foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More How I Became a Socialist A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press Letters [The Eastern Question]: letter to the Daily News [Anti-Scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum [St. Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily News Notes
Introduction Chronology Bibliographical Note Romance The Story of the Unknown Church A King's Lesson Two Extracts from A Dream of John Ball News from Nowhere Lectures The Lesser Arts Some Hints on Pattern-designing Useful Work versus Useless Toil The Hopes of Civilization Gothic Architecture Occasional Prose "Looking Backward": a review of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Under an Elm-tree; or, Thoughts in the Countryside Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin Foreword to Utopia by Sir Thomas More How I Became a Socialist A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press Letters [The Eastern Question]: letter to the Daily News [Anti-Scrape]: letter to the Athenaeum [St. Mark's, Venice]: letter to the Daily News Notes
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