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William Morris was born in Essex and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He was the founding editor of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) in which many of his early poems appear. He was a practising painter (1857-62) and public lecturer on art, architecture and socialism (1877-96). He founded .. .. more >>

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1		A Death Song
2		A Good Knight In Prison
3		Atalanta's Race
4		Autumn
5		Day
6		Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper
7		Flora
8		For the Bed at Kelmscott
9		Iceland First Seen
10		In Arthur's House
11		In Prison
12		King Arthur's Tomb
13		Love is enough
14		Love is Enough: Songs I-IX
15		Love's Gleaning Tide
16		March
17		Mine and Thine
18		Near Avalon
19		Near But Far Away
20		Night

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"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
William Morris (1834-1896), British artist, writer, printer. A Dream of John Ball, ch. 4 (1888).

"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
William Morris (1834-1896), British artist, writer, printer. Art Under Plutocracy (1883).

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Frank Green (11/8/2008 9:18:00 AM)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, the greatest aesthete since Aristotle and Plato, says that Morris is the only modern poet that Plato would heartily approve.

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