The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . cal Names(1857); Specimens of Early English— J2^o-1400 (1866-72); Historical Outlines of. EnglishAccidence (1872); On the Survival of Early EnglishWords (1876); Report on Pali Literature (1880); andFolk-Tales of India (1884-85). Died at HaroldWood, Essex, May 12, 1894. MORRIS,William, English poet,art-worker,andsocialist; born March 24, 1834, at Walthamstow,near London, and died atKelmscott House, Ham-mersmith, Middlesex, ,1896. He was educatedat Marlborough Collegeand at Exeter College,Oxford, whe
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . cal Names(1857); Specimens of Early English— J2^o-1400 (1866-72); Historical Outlines of. EnglishAccidence (1872); On the Survival of Early EnglishWords (1876); Report on Pali Literature (1880); andFolk-Tales of India (1884-85). Died at HaroldWood, Essex, May 12, 1894. MORRIS,William, English poet,art-worker,andsocialist; born March 24, 1834, at Walthamstow,near London, and died atKelmscott House, Ham-mersmith, Middlesex, ,1896. He was educatedat Marlborough Collegeand at Exeter College,Oxford, where he grad-uated in 1856. For a timehe studied painting andturned his attention toarchitecture, but afterwarddevoted himself to litera-ture, varied by an activecareer in the manufactureart-fabrics, wall-papers and stained glass. In thelatter enterprise he was joined by his artist-friends,Dante G. Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Ford MadoxBrown, who held with him that not only executivehandicraft was within the province of an artist, butthat all crafts demanded artistic treatment. In the. WILLIAM MORRIS. 146 MORRISBURG —MORRISTOWN factory at Suriey, Morris worked as a designer ofhouse-decorations, which proved not only a profit-able undertaking, but contributed to reform publictaste in color and design. In later life, the poet alsotook a keen interest and manifested a lively enthusi-asm in the Kelmscott Press, near by his home, fromwhich he issued a series of artistic reprints of earlyEnglish authors, made attractive, mechanically, byhis exquisite taste. Morriss literary career began in1856 with the publication of The Defence of Guine-vere, and Other Poems, a series of lyrics, mediaevalas to matter, tone and color, which have since ap-pealed with increasing delight to readers of imagi-native tastes. This was followed in 1867 by a longnarrative poem, entitled The Life and Death ofJason, and in 1868-70 by The Earthly Paradise, acollection of classical and mediaeval stories in verse,
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