WILLIAM MORRIS (SHIRE)

A concise and informative account of William Morris' many-sided career which placed him at the centre of an age and culture he both condemned and shaped. Hailed today as a pioneer of modern design, he was best known to his contemporaries as a poet. The book reveals him as a man of immense energy, charm and imagination, who learned to turn private grief to public purpose and, having failed as an architect and a painter, succeeded as a weaver, dyer, calligrapher, printer, businessman, journalist and novelist.