William Morris

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15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 9 - "The Good Morrow" & Many More

15 Minutes Of Love Poems - Volume 9 - "The Good Morrow" & Many More

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is...

Echoes of Love's House

Echoes of Love's House

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Echoes of Love’s House by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9th, 2011.William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the...

Inscription for an Old Bed

Inscription for an Old Bed

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Inscription for an Old Bed by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20th, 2010. Author - William Morris. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013.William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the...

News from Nowhere

News from Nowhere

Although William Morris is known primarily as a designer, he was also a writer of poetry and prose. The novel News from Nowhere (subtitled An Epoch of Rest Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance) is his best-known prose work and describes a humane...

News from Nowhere

News from Nowhere

William Morris's "News from Nowhere" transports readers to an idyllic future where industrial England has transformed into a harmonious, pastoral society. Narrator William Guest awakens in this utopian world, discovering a community that thrives on...

News From Nowhere

News From Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting...

Signs of Change

Signs of Change

In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw himself into the Socialist cause. He spoke all over the country, on street corners as well as in working men's...

The House of the Wolfings

The House of the Wolfings

William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people dominated his writings, the first...

The House of the Wolfings

The House of the Wolfings

William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of...

The Poetry of William Morris

The Poetry of William Morris

William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 and is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge...

The Pre-Raphaelite Poets

The Pre-Raphaelite Poets

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a group of painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, who wished to reject the stern and academic strictures of current painting and return to the simpler and more uncomplicated days...

The Well at the World's End

The Well at the World's End

The Well at the World's End is thought to be one of the first examples of an entirely fictional fantasy world, and has greatly influenced later fantasy writers such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book follows the travels of Ralph, a prince of a...

The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of...

The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood Beyond the World

In "The Wood Beyond the World," William Morris crafts a captivating tale of adventure and enchantment. Walter, a disenchanted young man, embarks on a voyage that leads him to a mystical land beyond comprehension. There, he encounters a beguiling Lady,...

The Wood Beyond The World

The Wood Beyond The World

For many readers and listeners, William Morris invented the genre of fantasy fiction. His novel The Wood Beyond the World transports his hero, Walter the Golden, from the English village of Langton-on-Holm across the seas to a magical kingdom in a...

This Magic Moment

This Magic Moment

This Magic Moment is a heartwarming true story about a white insurance executive’s three-decade friendship with four legendary African American singers and their remarkable journey together. Three were Rock and Roll Hall of Famers – Prentiss Barnes...

William Morris Poems

William Morris Poems

This Audiobook of William Morris poems has the following poems rendered by Ramani.A Death SongAtalanta's RaceIceland First SeenIn PrisonRiding TogetherShameful DeathThe Haystack in the FloodsThe Story of Sigurd the VolsungThe Voice of Toil Duration -...