William Morris

William Morris (1834 - 1896 / England)

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William Morris Poems

Day
Autumn
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the ...
Earth The Healer, Earth The Ke... So swift the hours are ...
Love Is Enough LOVE is enough: though the World be a-waning, ...
Flora am the handmaid of the earth, I broider fair her ...
Echoes Of Love's House Love gives every gift whereby we long ...

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William Morris was born in Essex and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He was the founding editor of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) in which many of his early poems appear. He was a practising painter (1857-62) and public lecturer on art, architecture and socialism (1877-96). He founded the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, in 1890 and was a founding member the same year of the Hammersmith Socialist Society. He helped found the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (1877) which he served as secretary. His designs in things like furniture and fabrics contributed to the Arts and Crafts Movement and changed Victorian taste. He was president of the Birmingham Society of Arts ... more »

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''The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?''
William Morris (1834-1896), British artist, writer, printer. Hammond, in News From Nowhere, ch. 15 (1891).
''If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.''
William Morris (1834-1896), British artist, writer, printer. Lecture, 1877. "The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress," publ. A...