Description: This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series brings together a selection of William Morris's poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters, with an introduction and notes that emphasize his rich literary and historical connections and the relevance of his prescient writing to pressing issues of the modern world.
Review Quotes: "Ingrid Hanson's wide-ranging selection from Morris's prolific writings identifies new points of interest in his oeuvre without neglecting those parts of it that mattered most to earlier generations" -- Dinah Birch, TLS
"By proposing that Morris saw art as a form of cultural combat, this volume moves Morris's program much closer to the twentieth-century avant-gardes than the cloistered intensities of Pre-Raphaelite interiors might suggest.This volume excels ... at revealing the politics of Morris's designs, and the personal energies that went into them." -- Peter Howarth, The Lamp"Hanson strikes a balance between the representative, the surprising and the obligatory, pushing us to ask anew how we might connect his prodigious if uneven writing with his dizzying array of concerns." -- Michael Ledger-Lomas, London Review of Books