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The Morrisian: I'm Back, and I'm in Iceland
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Saturday, July 11, 2015. I'm Back, and I'm in Iceland. Dear Morris World,. I spent thousands of krona on a sandwich and a latte (almond milk! But he soon found that Iceland blotted nothing out. Far from allowing anyone to forget everything, Iceland was the blankest page, containing nothing but humans and memories:. But he never thought of it that way. He wasn't thinking of himself, he was observing the people around him,...
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The Morrisian: September 2012
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Sunday, September 30, 2012. The Guilt of Young Morris. William Holman Hunt's The Light of the World. When William Morris went to Oxford in 1853, he met Edward Jones (later Edward Burne-Jones), and they became close friends. One morning in 1855, "just after breakfast," Burne-Jones remembered, "he [Morris] brought me the first poem he ever made." This was The Willow and the Red Cliff. When I sung of the willow-tree. It's tempt...
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The Morrisian: August 2012
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Thursday, August 16, 2012. Morris's leading passion: a "hatred of modern civilization". Was William Morris possessed of that magical trait we hear so much about: passion? If that's what passion is in the modern sense—a specific, directed, and reliable sort of vocation—then Morris was about as passionate as a piece of moldy bread. The latter seems most likely. After all, as he wrote to his mother, he had simple aims: R...
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The Morrisian: The Morrisian Interview Series, #2: John J. Walsdorf
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Friday, April 12, 2013. The Morrisian Interview Series, #2: John J. Walsdorf. Among his many publications are a complete bibliography. Of the work of author Julian Symons. On the American printer Elbert Hubbard;. A memoir about his experiences, entitled " On Collecting William Morris. William Morris in Private Press and Limited Editions: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books by and About William Morris. How did it start? Well,...
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The Morrisian: June 2012
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Sunday, June 24, 2012. A Drunken Promise to Tennyson. Portrait of Tennyson, by Millais. A figure who inspired upstanding behavior. William Morris's friend, William Allingham, was an Irish man of letters with a penchant for collecting famous friends. He was also a devoted keeper of diaries. As a result, his unfinished autobiography, "William Allingham, a Diary". Wednesday, June 13, 2012. One Good Thing to Come out of America.
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The Morrisian: Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Monday, December 10, 2012. Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns. On this day in 1815, Augusta Ada Byron,. One computing innovation that preceded the Difference Engine—or Babbage's other computer, the “ Analytical Engine. When Ada tragically died of cancer in 1852, she was 36. Morris was just a teenager at the time, preparing to go to Oxford. The tiny overlap in their lives and work was summed up. July 31, 2015 at 9:50 PM.
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The Morrisian: October 2013
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Sunday, October 27, 2013. Mark Samuels Lasner: The Collecting Life. Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow. At the University of Delaware Library , is an authority on the literature and art of 1850-1900. He has spent years collecting thousands of items from the period. Is collection is largely housed at the University of Delawares Morris Library, under the name of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. 160;which was s...
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The Morrisian: October 2012
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. The Richest Girl in the World. One of Doris Duke's Islamic art objects on show at the M.A.D. in New York City. Doris Duke was born in New York in 1912, to an incredibly wealthy family. She grew up on Fifth Avenue, and her beauty and wealth attracted much attention. Dubbed "the richest girl in the world," she became a celebrity as well as an heiress. Thus was born the famous house, Shangri-La, and...
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The Morrisian: December 2012
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Monday, December 10, 2012. Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns. On this day in 1815, Augusta Ada Byron,. One computing innovation that preceded the Difference Engine—or Babbage's other computer, the “ Analytical Engine. When Ada tragically died of cancer in 1852, she was 36. Morris was just a teenager at the time, preparing to go to Oxford. The tiny overlap in their lives and work was summed up. 160;which Ill be intervi...
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The Morrisian: July 2012
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A blog about the famous Victorian poet, designer, and Socialist, William Morris. Monday, July 23, 2012. William Morris's Great Weakness. Morris's Oxford Union mural, How Sir Palomydes Loved La Belle Iseult. Great Love out of Measure. And how She Loved Him Not Again but Rather Sir Tristram. Morris struggled with the figures in his mural. He would never succeed, and his attempts would often drive him wild with frustration. The only canvas painting spared,. Is good enough to suggest that he was a fine paint...
