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William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he campaigned for socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain.
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culture · English textile artist, author, and socialist (1834–1896) · architect · poet · designer · graphic designer · painter · science fiction writer · politician · illustrator · prose writer · artist · also William Morris, William M. Morris, Morris
Born 24 March 1834 · Died 3 October 1896 · Q182589
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The British Empire is not a thing to love or to be proud of, but a disgrace and a nuisance, as a domination compounded of fraud, injustice and violence to be scorned by all honest men wherever possible.
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“Ah! wilt thou leave me then without one kiss, To slay the very seeds of fear and doubt, That glad to-morrow may bring certain bliss? Hast thou forgotten how love lives by this, The memory of some hopeful close embrace, Low whispered words within some lonely place?”
The Guardian: The pet I’ll never forget: Morris the staffie – the shameless thief who stole an entire roast chicken
The William Morris Gallery opened the exhibition Morris Mania, examining how Morris's designs became globally recognised
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Arts Catalyst commissioned British artist and academic David Mabb to produce a work responding to the use of Morris's designs in the living quarters aboard British nuclear submarines from the 1960s to the 1990s
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited William Morris: Textiles and Wallpaper, displaying early decorative arts the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company and later Morris & Company produced
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For which she recruited around 70 artists who were required to undertake a test on Morris's News from Nowhere to be accepted
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The Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology bought William Morris's London-built Hopkinson & Cope Improved Albion press (No
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Published “AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 23,286 times.
Published “User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1” in MIS Quarterly — cited 31,333 times.
Morris was honoured by Waltham Forest London Borough Council with the naming of the William Morris ward
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
And a paperback edition was published in 2010
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Is devoted to his legacy, while multiple biographies and studies of his work have been published
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After Morris's death, per the latter's wishes
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Died 1896-10-03.
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“The British Empire is not a thing to love or to be proud of, but a disgrace and a nuisance, as a domination compounded of fraud, injustice and violence to be scorned by all honest men wherever possible.”
“With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.”
The Hammersmith Socialist Society co-founded the Joint Committee of Socialist Bodies with representatives of the SDF and Fabian Society; Morris helped draw up its "Manifesto of English Socialists"
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Founded the Kelmscott Press, which by the time it closed in 1898 had produced more than fifty works using traditional printing methods, a hand-driven press and hand-made paper
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Founded the Kelmscott Press to publish limited-edition, illuminated-style print books, a cause to which he devoted his final years
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The DF renamed itself the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) and underwent an internal reorganisation
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Although at the time he was too preoccupied with his socialist activism to pay it any attention
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After an involvement in the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), but he broke with that organisation in 1890
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And holding a stand at that year's Foreign Fair in Boston
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He believed that it led to little more than a "yearning nostalgia or a sweet complaint" and that Morris became "a realist and a revolutionary" only when he adopted socialism in 1882.
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By Henry Hyndman, an adherent of the socio-political ideology of Marxism, with Morris joining the DF in January 1883
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“The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress”
Morris was approached by Oxford University and offered the largely honorary position of Professor of Poetry
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Founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to campaign against the damage caused by architectural restoration
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“Come — pain ye shall have, and be blind to the ending! Come — fear ye shall have, mid the sky's overcasting! Come — change ye shall have, for far are ye wending! Come — no crown ye shall have for your thirst and your fasting, But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting! Cry out, for one heedeth, who leadeth you home!”
Morris visited the Church of St John the Baptist, Burford, where he was appalled at the restoration conducted by his old mentor, G
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Assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris & Co
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And the Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs in 1870
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And began to learn the Icelandic language from him
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Bell and Dandy published Morris's epic poem, The Life and Death of Jason, at his own expense
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Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co
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Through The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed while at university
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Studied at Exeter College (1853).
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Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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And was a staunch advocate of abandoning faddish woolen work on canvas in favour of more expressive embroidery techniques based on Opus Anglicanum, a surface embroidery technique popular in medieval England
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Morris's father died unexpectedly
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Rendall in 1839, Arthur in 1840, Isabella in 1842, Edgar in 1844, and Alice in 1846
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Born 1834-03-24.
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And Henrietta in 1833, before William's birth
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
Come — pain ye shall have, and be blind to the ending! Come — fear ye shall have, mid the sky's overcasting! Come — change ye shall have, for far are ye wending! Come — no crown ye shall have for your thirst and your fasting, But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting! Cry out, for one heedeth, who leadeth you home!
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