William Morris: Selected Writings by Ingrid Hanson

William Morris: Selected Writings by Ingrid Hanson

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.

Review from previous edition 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

Ingrid Hanson is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester. She has published work on William Morris, Victorian medievalism, masculinities, Victorian socialist poetry and periodicals, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century anti-war literature. She has appeared as an expert guest on William Morris on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time and on BBC Radio 3's The Essay.

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ISBN 13	9780197932384
ISBN 10	019793238X
Title	William Morris: Selected Writings
Author	Ingrid Hanson
Series	21st-Century Oxford Authors
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2026-11-12
Number of pages	688
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