This newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings
together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his
life, ordered chronologically, with an introduction highlighting
his pressing and prescient writing on matters of the natural and
built environment, human and non-human relations, internationalism,
migration, and social justice, as well as the wide range of his
literary and artistic concerns. Expert textual notes draw attention
to the interconnectedness of Morris's writing and its rich
literary, historical, and political contexts and sources: this is
work that reaches back to tales of personal, dynastic, and
political passion in medieval Europe or the craftsmanship of
ancient Persia as deftly as it lambasts Victorian work practices
and living conditions in Britain or sets out to correct
misconceptions about the nature of social revolution; it creates
visions of a just, equal, and beautiful future from re-told or
imagined pasts. This selection includes lyric, epic, and narrative
poetry and a range of prose writings that tell stories, conjure
worlds, rouse their readers to action, and urge them to care for
the earth, its inhabitants, its beauty, and its histories. It
demonstrates the continuing power of Morris's writings to speak to
the present with as lively, particular, and provocative a voice as
it spoke to its own time.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
21st-Century Oxford Authors |
Release date: |
May 2024 |
Authors: |
Ingrid Hanson
(Lecturer in English Literature)
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
672 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-289481-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-19-289481-1 |
Barcode: |
9780192894816 |
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