The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896

William Morris

Published by Princeton University Press 1996

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV

1893-1896

William Morris
Edited by: Norman Kelvin

Volume 325 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400864249

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These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Volumes III and IV, taken together, give in detail the comments and observations that articulate his problematic political and artistic stands and equally problematic position within the aesthetic movement as it developed in the 1890s. Most eloquently voiced also are the complexities of his troubled marriage and his devotion to his epileptic daughter, Jenny, and his other daughter, May. But dominating all these themes, organizing and structuring them, are the Kelmscott Press and the building of Morris's important library of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The letters record the way in which the Press becomes not only the center of Morris's aesthetic ambitions and achievements but also the site for his closest human relations and for much of his connecting with the makers of early modernism.

The letters in Volumes III and IV are thoroughly annotated, and through texts and notes provide a new assessment of Morris's career. Included also, as appendices to Volume IV, are two important documents: the first, never before published, is F. S. Ellis's Valuation List of Morris's library, made after Morris's death, and the second, never before reprinted, is the text of what was to be Morris's final essay on socialism, published in April 1896.

Originally published in 1996.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
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The Letters
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APPENDIX Α . The Present Outlook of Socialism in England William Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
APPENDIX Β. Valuation of the Library of William Morris 1896 Frederick Startridge Ellis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
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