Wallpaper and Barricades
Terry Eagleton
- William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy
Faber, 780 pp, £25.00, November 1994, ISBN 0 571 14250 8
The Left has always been uneasy with aesthetics. The very word suggests privilege, preciousness, a remoteness from the real. Even when radicals respect culture, they assign it, quite properly, a secondary place to social utility. If it’s a choice between snatching from the flames the Holbein or the hippie, the radical is a mite less agonised than the aesthete. Almost everyone agrees that a museum is not as fine a thing as an orphanage; what differentiates Left from Right is just the degree of mental reservation you feel about the proposition.
In any case, too many conservatives have hijacked the aesthetic to ratify their politics. The sublimity of power; society as a mysteriously unified organism; history as spontaneous growth; truth as an intuitive certainty felt on the pulses: it is no wonder (though it is a pity) that the old Left tended to counter these Burkeian mystifications with a bloodless rationalism. And that rationalism merely reflected the Utilitarianism of a society for which art was an embarrassing superfluity. The contemporary Left, to be sure, has rectified this error with a vengeance. If politics once swallowed up culture, culture has now almost entirely absorbed politics. There is a good deal more interest in Madonna than in the multinationals.
There was always, however, an alternative heritage. The young Marx owed much of his critique of capitalism to the aesthetics of Friedrich Schiller, and aesthetic notions lurk within the political and economic thought of his maturity. If the early Marx opposes industrial capitalism, it is as much because it robs us of our sensuous life as of our material well-being, plundering the body and stripping its perceptual organs to so many commodified objects. Nothing about Sky television would have surprised him. The Frankfurt School, and Marcuse in particular, were the great inheritors of this cultural politics; but meanwhile an indigenous British current of it had got under way, passed from Coleridge and Carlyle to John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. From this radical-Romantic viewpoint, industrial capitalism was to be condemned for stifling a creativity which the arts, above all, most finely exemplified. Art was the enemy of alienation, craftsmanship the antithesis of labour. Human culture implied a community at odds with the atomised social order of the marketplace.
There were three mighty flaws in this generous vision. It was embarrassingly nostalgic, enraptured by the dream of an organic society of colourful peasants and clean-limbed artisans before the Fall into modernity. Freedom was less a matter of having the vote than of being allowed to doodle the odd gargoyle on a cathedral roof. It was unsure whether its target was industrialism or industrial capitalism, which somewhat blunted its political edge. And it was inescapably idealist, trusting to a change of heart rather than a transformation of the economy. Scornful or ignorant of socialist thought, it was forced to oppose the social order it detested with pre- rather than post-capitalist forms. Its Romanticism was thus radical and reactionary together – a bizarre blend of communalism and neo-feudalism in which the predatory capitalist was ousted by the paternalist landlord. It was this tradition which lay behind the great figures of Modernist English literature, radical reactionaries to a man (Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis) though not, as it happens, to a Bloomsbury woman.
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (Spectre): E. P. Thompson ...
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This biographical study is a window into 19th-century British society and the life of William Morris—the great craftsman, architect, designer, poet, and writer—whoWilliam Morris: Romantic To Revolutionary, By EP Thompson
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May 6, 2010 - Book Of A Lifetime: William Morris: Romantic To Revolutionary, By EP Thompson. By Sheila Rowbotham; Thursday 6 May 2010 ...E.P. Thompson: William Morris (1959) - Marxists Internet Archive
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Jul 23, 2010 - A lecture to the Williams Morris Society, 1959. First published in Persons and Polemics, Historical Essays by E.P. Thompson, Merlin Press 1994 ...~~~~~
William Morris, His Life, Work and Friends By Philip Henderson (Thames and Hudson* 1967, 63s; Pelican Books**, 1973, 90p) Arts and artist Series
喜歡有"Friends"的副書名。
*First U.S. edition. With 82 black-and-white illustrations and 8 plates in color. xvi , 388 pages. patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..
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*First U.S. edition. With 82 black-and-white illustrations and 8 plates in color. xvi , 388 pages. patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..
- Hardcover: 388 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson London; First edition (1967)
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0000CNODT
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 2 inches
**22幅黑白,內文463頁
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1967; Penguin edition 1973), pp. 105-12 (Taylor) and pp. 193-5 (letters to Wardle ...
William Morris, His Life, Work and Friends Philip Henderson (Thames ...
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William Morris, His Life, Work and Friends Philip Henderson (Thames and Hudson 63s) Rarely is a reviewer given any book which is such a delight to hold and ...William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
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E. P. Thompson - 2011 - Biography & Autobiography
See especially Philip Henderson, William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends (Kelmscott Press Books
The following is a comprehensive list of the 53 works printed at the Kelmscott Press. The University of Maryland Libraries hold 34 Kelmscott Press books, indicated by call number.
All items listed in this section include William S. Peterson's citation numbers from A Bibliography of The Kelmscott Press (SPC REF Z232.M87P44 1984). This bibliography provides additional details about the majority of Kelmscott Press materials in the William Morris Collection. Peterson divided his bibliography into five parts using the letters A through E.
Highlighted titles link to digitized copies. Some of these digitized copies were made from University of Maryland books; the rest were made from materials held by other institutions.
- Poems by the Way by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.P4 1891Publication Date: 1891Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A2 - The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 4149.B8L5 1892Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A3 - The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.D4 1892Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A5 - A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.D8 1892Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A6 Project Gutenberg's A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson, by William Morris
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/357/357-h/357-h.htm- The Golden Legend by
Call Number: Rare Stacks BX 4654.J334 1892Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A7
Originally meant to be the first book published at the KP but because of its length and problems with the paper, the seventh book to come off the press. With the bookplate of Estelle Doheny in each volume. - The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye by
Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A8 - Biblia Innocentium: Being the Story of God's chosen People Before the Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ upon Earth by
Call Number: Rare Stacks BS 539.M23 1892Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A9 - The History of Reynard the Fox by
Call Number: Rare Folio PT 5584.E5C33 1892Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A10 - The Poems of William Shakespeare, printed after the original copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover's Complaint by
Publication Date: 1893Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A11 - The Order of Chivalry, and L'Ordene de Chevalrie by
Call Number: Rare Stacks CR 4531.L815 1893Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A13 - The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York by
Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A14 - The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Iherusalem by
Call Number: Rare Folio D 183.3.W5513 1893Publication Date: 1892Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A15
Copy 1 inscribed by William Morris to Theodore Walter Watts; copy 2 inscribed by William Morris to Robert Steele - Maud: A Monodrama by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5567.A1 1893Publication Date: 1893Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A17
With an advertisement from the publishers Macmillan & Co. announcing the printing of Maud at the Kelmscott Press. Green cardboard slipcase with gold lettering on the front cover, possibly also commissioned by the publisher and meant to house the Kelmscott Maud. - Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by
Call Number: Rare Stacks NA 440.M86 1893Publication Date: 1893Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A18 - Sidonia the sorceress by
Call Number: Rare Folio PT2430.M35 S513 1893Publication Date: 1893Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A19 - Ballads and Narrative Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti by
Publication Date: 1893Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A20 - Sonnets and Lyrical Poems by
Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A20a - Of King Florus and the fair Jehane by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ1461.F47 A25Publication Date: 1893Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A21 - The Story of the Glittering Plain which has also been called the Land of Living Men or th Acre of the Undying by
Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A22 - Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ1425.A35 E49 1894Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A23
May Morris's copy - The Poems of John Keats by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4830 .E94Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A24
Inscribed copy, in the hand of William Morris "to Edward Burne-Jones from W.M. May 9th 1894." This copy also carries the book label, printed by the Kelmscott Press in Golden type, "From the Library of Edward Burne-Jones, The Grange, North End Road, Fulham." - Atalanta in Calydon: a Tragedy by
Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A25 - The tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over sea by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ 1391.M6 1894Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A26 - The Wood Beyond the World by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5079 .W6 1894Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A27 - The Book of Wisdom and Lies by
Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A28 - The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by
Publication Date: 1895Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A29 - Psalmi penitentiales by
Call Number: Rare Stacks BS1445.P4 E4 1894Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A30 - Epistola de contemptu mundi di frate Hieronymo da Ferrara dellordine de frati predicatori la quale manda ad Elena Buonaccorsi sua madre, per consolarla della morte del fratello, suo zio by
Call Number: Rare Stacks BV4904 .S3Publication Date: 1894Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A31 - The tale of Beowulf
Call Number: Rare Folio PR1583 .M6 1895Publication Date: 1895Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A32
Inscribed by William Morris to F. J. Furnivall - Syr Perecyvelle of Gales by
Publication Date: 1895Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A33 - Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5079 .C5 1895Publication Date: 1895Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A35
Inscribed by William Morris to Henry Newman Howard - Hand & Soul by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5244 .H26 1895Publication Date: 1895Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A36 - Poems Chosen Out of the Works of Robert Herrick by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR3511 .E55 1895Publication Date: 1895Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A37 - Poems Chosen Out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR4478.A35 E4 1896Publication Date: 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A38 - The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now newly imprinted by
Call Number: Rare Oversize PR1850 1896Publication Date: 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A40
*One of 425 copies on paper.
Also [Two leaves on vellum from] The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: RAROVR PR 1850 1896e. Two leaves only, on vellum, from an edition of only 13 copies on vellum. Includes a large woodcut by Burne-Jones. Bound in half-red morocco by Sangoski and Sutcliffe. - The Earthly Paradise by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5075 .A1 1896Publication Date: 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A41
See Morris-related Ephemera, for the description of a work sheet originating at the Kelmscott Press, for the printing of The Earthly Paradise. - Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis
Call Number: Rare Folio PA 8360.L35 1896Publication Date: 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A42
Inscribed by Edward Burne-Jones to J. W. Mackail - The Floure and the Leafe and the Boke of Cupide by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 1898.F4 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A43
Sydney Cockerell Presentation Copy - The Shepheardes Calendar: Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues, Proprtionable to the Twelve Monethes by
Publication Date: 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A44 - [Specimen pages] Here Begynneth the Prologe of Sir Johan Froissart of the Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and Other Places Adjoynynge by
Publication Date: 1896, 1897Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A46 - Sire Degrevaunt by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 2065.D45 1896Publication Date: 1896Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A47
"Edited by F.S. Ellis after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell from the Cambridge ms., with some additions & variations from that in the library of Lincoln Cathedral"--P. [81]. Frontispiece designed by Edward Burne-Jones. - Syr Ysambrace by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR2065 I8 1897Publication Date: 1897Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A48 - Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century by
Call Number: Rare Folio NE 1245.S66 1898Publication Date: 1898Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A49
Thirty-five reproductions from printed books in the library of William Morris, preceded by extracts from his article "On the artistic qualities of the woodcut books of Ulm and Augsburg in the fifteenth century," and followed by a list of the principal books with woodcuts in his library. - The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by
Publication Date: 1898Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A50 - The Sundering Flood by
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.S9 1897bPublication Date: 1897Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A51
Note: Also have proof sheet from opening page. - Love is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond by
Call Number: Rare Folio PR 5078.L5 1897Publication Date: 1897Peterson, W. S. Kelmscott Press A52
The second KP book to be printed in three colors. Printed after Morris's death. - A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press : together with a short description of the press by
Call Number: Rare Stacks Z232.M87 M83 1898Publication Date: 1898Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press A53
Sydney Cockerell presentation copy
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