Morris, William
William Morris (1834–1896) was born in Walthamstow, now part of London, on March 24 and died at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, London on October 3. During his own lifetime he was...
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Biography EssayWriting is only one element of William Morris's diverse achievements. He designed textiles, wallpapers, stained glass, rugs, tapestries, and embroidery; and he founded and managed a com...
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William Morris (1834-1896), one of the most versatile and influential men of his age, was the last of the major English romantics and a leading champion and promoter of revolutionary ideas as poet, cr...
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William Morris was a man of abundant energy and many talents which he devoted to art, literature, and social justice. His life was one of constant creativity as designer, craftsman, writer, translator...
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Much praised in his own lifetime for the "sweetness" of his lyrics, compared to Chaucer as a narrative poet, and seriously considered as a successor to Tennyson in the laureateship, William Morris has...
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Writing is only one element of William Morris's diverse achievement. He designed textiles, wallpapers, stained glass, rugs, tapestries, and embroidery; and he founded and managed a company to produce ...
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William Morris was a prolific writer who worked in many genres. His literary works that continue to receive considerable attention include his early short Pre-Raphaelite poems, his socialist writings,...
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One of the most versatile and gifted of all the Victorians, William Morris has had an important influence on literature, printing, interior decoration, and thought on the relation of government and th...
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William Morris has been seen as a man who divided himself among the fine and literary arts, crafts, and social concerns including the preservation of historic churches, but this characterization does ...
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In the following essay, Boos investigates the socialist-feminist element in William Morris's writing.
In the last decade of his life, William Morris developed a sage voice of “fellows...
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In the following review, which was originally published in March 1858, Garnett investigates the poetic influences on Morris's The Defence of Guenevere.
It might not be easy to find a more st...
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In the following essay, Stallman perceives Morris's “Rapunzel” as an archetypal Victorian treatment of the mythic quest and a “rite of passage” tale.
Morris...
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In the following essay, Kirchhoff views Love is Not Enough to be a transitional work in Morris's poetic development.
The notion of William Morris' career as a gradual flowering into i...
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In the following essay, Lourie examines the seven Morris poems that make up the “The Blue Closet” group, maintaining that by studying these poems “we will perhaps have learned som...
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In the following essay, Oberg argues that the “Apology” and the Prologue to The Earthly Paradise function to foreshadow and amplify Morris's central poetic themes.
The Earthly ...
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In the following essay, Barker compares The Earthly Paradise to Alfred Tennyson's “The Lotos-Eaters” and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene to show that Morris's poe...
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In the following essay, Tarvers contends that Morris utilizes vivid color imagery in The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems to manipulate “readers' emotional responses to the character...
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In the following essay, Latham analyzes Morris's omissions and revisions to The Earthly Paradise and establishes a chronology for the composition of the poem.
We know that the faculty for sp...
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In the following essay, Herbert contrasts the function of the frame structures of Alfred Tennyson's The Princess and Morris's The Earthly Paradise.
After reading the first volume of T...
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In the following essay, Hale and Stevenson determine Queen Guenevere's guilt in “Defence of Guenevere,” contending that “Morris created a fully sexual woman who makes no ap...
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In the following essay, Talbot offers a feminist perspective on “Pomona” and maintains that Morris was aware and concerned with feminist and ecological issues.
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Admirers of William M...
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In the following essay, originally published in The Westminster Review in 1868, Pater gives a reading of Morris's oeuvre with an emphasis on the mixture of Hellenic, medieval, and modern influe...
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In the following essay, Boos provides an “inclusive and eclectic view” of Morris's poetic development.
William Morris's contemporaries viewed him primarily as the author...
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In the following essay, Markley determines the influence of Robert Browning on Morris's “Riding Together.”
Published in 1856 in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, and later in ...
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In the following essay, Stevenson and Hale view “Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery” as a hybrid of the conventions of medieval religious drama, courtly romance, and medieval mystery play....
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In the following essay, which initially appeared in the Quarterly Review in 1872, Courthope delineates the major flaws in Morris's Earthly Paradise.
Without in any way affecting the characte...
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In the following excerpt, Stedman provides an overview of Morris's poetic oeuvre.
It is but natural, then, that we should find in William Morris a poet who may be described, to use the phras...
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In the following essay, Chesterton views Morris as a prime representative of the Victorian era and outlines the limitations of his verse.
It is proper enough that the unveiling of the bust of Willi...
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In the following essay, Dawson credits Morris, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne, with the revival of Romanticism in English poetry and analyzes Morris's developm...
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In the following essay, Clutton-Brock discusses Morris as a Romantic poet, contending that of “all the Romantic poets Morris, in his early poetry was the most romantic; for he was more consciou...
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In the following essay, Litzenberg traces Morris's allusions to Eddic matters in his pre-1869 verse.
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Although William Morris is noted for the Norse adaptations he made in such poems as ...
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In the following essay, Perrine provides an interpretation of Queen Guenevere's character in “The Defence of Guenevere” and finds her guilty of adultery in the poem.
“Th...
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The losses for Michelle Wie keep piling up even though her LPGA Tour season is over. The latest came Monday when her agent resigned after less than a year on the job.Greg Nared, a former Nike busin...
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SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Hoping to bankroll the next
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", international financiers said
on Wednesday they will pump millions of dollars into the Asian
film indust...
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The company behind Harvard author Kaavya Viswanathan and her now-cancelled book, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, is a young-adult media giant called Alloy Entertainment, whose ...
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The company behind Harvard author Kaavya Viswanathan and her now-cancelled book, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, is a young-adult media giant called Alloy Entertainment, whose ...
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Half a century ago in Hollywood, men conveyed power simply: typically with a black suit, ideally tailored by Jack Taylor, whose shop—snuggled up to Spago on Cañon Drive in Beverly Hills&...
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Half a century ago in Hollywood, men conveyed power simply: typically with a black suit, ideally tailored by Jack Taylor, whose shop—snuggled up to Spago on Cañon Drive in Beverly Hills&...
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The Miss America Pageant has been dropped by Country Music Television, leaving the 86-year-old competition without a TV outlet for the second time in three years.The Viacom-owned network, which had...
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Investors at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. ousted five of six board members up for re-election Thursday, including the chief executive, who was booted from the boardroom a...
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Investors at video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. ousted five of six board members up for re-election Thursday, including the chief executive, who was booted from the boardroom a...
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