William Morris : romantic to revolutionary / by E.P. Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Monthly Review Press, c1961.Description: 908 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781604862430
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 5083 .T56 1961
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I : William Morris and the romantic revolt / 1. Sir Lancelot and Mr. Gradgrind -- 2. The romantic revolt -- 3. Oxford - Carlyle and Ruskin -- 4. Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites -- 5. The first joust with Victorianism
Part II : The years of conflict / 1. William Morris and the decorative arts -- 2. The poetry of despair -- 3. "Only the ledger lives..." -- 4. "Love is enough" -- 5. Hope and courage -- 6. Action -- 7. The "anti-scrape" -- 8. The river of fire --
Part III : Practical Socialism / 1. The first two hundred -- 2. The first propaganda -- 3. The split -- 4. The socialist league, (1885 - 1886) "making socialists" -- 5. The socialists make contact with the masses, (1887 - 1888) -- 6. The last years of the socialist league -- 7. Toward a united socialist party, (1890 - 1896)--
Part IV : Necessity and desire / Necessity and desire
Subject: "This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris—the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer—who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the “river of fire” and become a committed socialist—committed not only to the theory of socialism but also to the practice of it in the day-to-day struggle of working women and men in Victorian England. While both the British Labor Movement and the Marxists have venerated Morris, this legacy of his life proves that many of his ideas did not accord with the dominant reforming tendencies, providing a unique perspective on Morris scholarship." --from Amazon.comReview: "Thompson’s is the first biography to do justice to Morris’s political thought and so assemble the man whole. . . . It is not only the standard biography of Morris; it makes us realize, as no other writer has done, how completely admirable a man this Victorian was—how consistent and honest to himself and others, how incapable of cruelty or jargon and, above all, how free." --Robert Hughes, Time magazine
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Includes index.

Includes one black and white illustration/portrait of William Morris.

Contains a list of abbreviations (pages 11-12).

Part I : William Morris and the romantic revolt / 1. Sir Lancelot and Mr. Gradgrind -- 2. The romantic revolt -- 3. Oxford - Carlyle and Ruskin -- 4. Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites -- 5. The first joust with Victorianism

Part II : The years of conflict / 1. William Morris and the decorative arts -- 2. The poetry of despair -- 3. "Only the ledger lives..." -- 4. "Love is enough" -- 5. Hope and courage -- 6. Action -- 7. The "anti-scrape" -- 8. The river of fire --

Part III : Practical Socialism / 1. The first two hundred -- 2. The first propaganda -- 3. The split -- 4. The socialist league, (1885 - 1886) "making socialists" -- 5. The socialists make contact with the masses, (1887 - 1888) -- 6. The last years of the socialist league -- 7. Toward a united socialist party, (1890 - 1896)--

Part IV : Necessity and desire / Necessity and desire

"This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris—the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer—who remains a monumental and influential figure to this day. This account chronicles how his concern with artistic and human values led him to cross what he called the “river of fire” and become a committed socialist—committed not only to the theory of socialism but also to the practice of it in the day-to-day struggle of working women and men in Victorian England. While both the British Labor Movement and the Marxists have venerated Morris, this legacy of his life proves that many of his ideas did not accord with the dominant reforming tendencies, providing a unique perspective on Morris scholarship." --from Amazon.com

"Thompson’s is the first biography to do justice to Morris’s political thought and so assemble the man whole. . . . It is not only the standard biography of Morris; it makes us realize, as no other writer has done, how completely admirable a man this Victorian was—how consistent and honest to himself and others, how incapable of cruelty or jargon and, above all, how free." --Robert Hughes, Time magazine

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