Writing 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 company to produce them. He was a leading influence on the Arts and...

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 them. He was a leading influence on the Arts and...

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, lecturer, calligrapher, merchant, medievalist,...

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, and his late prose romances. His works of short...

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 subsequently often been disparaged for writing...

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 the arts. He wrote poems and stories and translated...

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 not ring true. In fact, Morris united all these...

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, critic, artist, designer, manufacturer, and socialist....