Few individuals have exerted more influence on their
contemporaries, and on posterity, than William Morris.
Dr Stephen Coote brings together the diverse elements
of this extraordinary man s life into a single biography.
The narrative is illustrated both with colour pictures of
his work and extracts from his poetry and prose,
throwing light on the career of this multi-faceted
Victorian who:
~ as a designer of fabrics and wallpapers changed
thousands of homes and remains an important
influence today
~ as a craftsman and proprietor of his own company
spread the ideals of individual workmanship, the
organic wholeness of all the arts and resistance to
mass-production
~ as a writer and poet, was offered the poet
laureateship, wrote constantly on the social
conditions of his day and translated Icelandic
~ as a socialist, espoused revolutionary ideas and was
one of the founding fathers of the British socialist
movement.
Besides Morris s considerable achievements, Stephen
Coote looks at the man himself: his stormy friendships,
his tortured menage with Jane Morris and Dante
Gabriel Rossetti and his single-minded devotion to his
work.
When Morris died in 1896 at the age of 62, his doctor
ascribed the cause of death to "simply being william
Morris and having done more work than most ten men
Almost a 100 years later, Stephen Coote has provided a
fitting tribute to one of the great figures of modem
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