William Morris: A Life For Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy

Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the nineteenth century. But his genius was so many-sided and so profound that its full extent has rarely been grasped. Many people may find it hard to believe that the greatest English designer of his time, possibly of all time, could also be internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement, and could have been ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning. With penetrating insight, Fiona MacCarthy has managed to encompass all the different facets of Morris's complex character, shedding light on his immense creative powers as artist and designer of furniture, fabrics, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry and books, and as a poet, novelist and translator; his psychology and his emotional life; his frenetic activities as polemicist and reformer; and his remarkable circle of friends, literary, artistic and political. This 2010 Faber & Faber Softcover is in good condition. Heavy; Owner's Name inside. Annotations in pen: on inside cover 'pxviii inequality' and under Morris' name on first page is written 1834-1896'.

ISBN: 9780571255597 SKU: 1569927 This image is of the actual book.

Location: Biography