William Morris 2 Volume Set
William Morris 2 Volume Set
£99.99
GBPA tireless champion of her father William, and a gifted designer and craftswoman in her own right, Mary (May) Morris (1862–1938) had a unique insight into his extraordinary career and creativity. It was she who undertook the exacting task of editing the twenty-four volumes of her father's collected works (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). In 1936, towards the end of her life, she published this supplementary two-volume work, which includes further writings and sympathetic commentary, revealing 'the development of a mind which was singularly of one piece, however many-sided'. Volume 1 addresses William Morris' artistic and literary achievements, containing introductory remarks and analysis, nearly fifty miscellaneous pieces on arts and crafts, and several unpublished poems, translations and letters. Volume 2 addresses Morris' political aims and ideals, opening with George Bernard Shaw's essay 'Morris as I Knew Him' and containing May's substantial assessment of her father's socialism.
Product details
October 2012Multiple copy pack
9781108054638
1394 pages
230 × 152 × 91 mm
1.85kg
6 b/w illus.
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Part I. The Art of William Morris: Introduction
- 1. The spring-time of the firm
- 2. Morris as a designer
- 3. Morris and his circle
- 4. Morris as an inspiration
- 5. Arts and crafts
- Papers chiefly on art and the crafts
- Part II. William Morris as a Writer: Introduction
- 1. Experiment
- 2. Dramatic verse
- 3. Narrative poetry
- 4. Love Is Enough
- 5. The influence of the north
- 6. Later years
- Juvenilia
- Poems of the 'Earthly Paradise' period
- From the Icelandic
- Appendix. Volume 2: Morris as I knew him G. B. Shaw
- Part I. Introductory:
- 1. The background: country life
- 2. The background: the revolt against laissez-faire
- Part II. Modern Socialism:
- 3. Hopes and fears
- 4. The beginnings of modern socialism
- 5. Early days as a socialist
- 6. Morris as a lecturer
- 7. The founding of the Socialist League
- 8. New lectures
- 9. Free speech in London
- 10. The aftermath
- Part III. Politics and Socialism:
- 11. Commonweal notes
- 12. Socialism and anarchism
- 13. Socialism comes into politics
- Lectures, articles and letters by William Morris
- Appendices
- Index to the complete works.
