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William Morris
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British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)
William Morris was a British artist, writer, and political thinker who revolutionized textile design and decorative arts during the Victorian era while advocating for socialist ideals. He matters because his work challenged industrial mass production, emphasized skilled craftsmanship, and influenced how we think about design, beauty, and the relationship between art and everyday life.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1913
- Died
- 1994
- Works
- 21
Top works
- The Grosset Webster dictionary
- The Grolier international dictionary
- The Ginn beginning dictionary
- The Ginn intermediate dictionary
- The American Heritage dictionary of the English language
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1970-05-25
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,309
- Total plays
- 6,649
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William Morris is a composer and sound designer working in Film, Television and Advertising, with credits for Playstation, Shell, 7-UP, Speedo USA and fantasy drama series 'Making Sparks'. A graduate of Leeds College of Music Conservatoire with first class honors in composition for screen, William studied under BAFTA nominated composer Neil Myers. William is internationally published with Quantum Music Works and The Eggplant Stereo. He is currently based in Manchester, England. <a href="https:
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,673x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,968x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,036x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,797x
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Quotes
- “Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea, Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.”
- “The majesty That from man's soul looks through his eager eyes.”
- “Now such an one for daughter Creon had As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”
- “I know a little garden-close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night, And have one with me wandering.”
- “O thrush, your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung, Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear Love and I were young.”
- “From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies."”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- williammorrissociety.org
- Image
- William Morris age 53.jpg
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- Commons category
- William Morris
- date of death
- 1896-10-03
- date of birth
- 1834-03-24
- Commons Creator page
- William Morris
- Commons gallery
- William Morris
- start of work period
- 1869-00-00
- end of work period
- 1896-01-01
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1473-morris-william
- P12749
- William Hurt
- P8168
- Analord
- P13311
- Claudia Barainsky
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Works in European collections
17 objects attributed to William Morris, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Ave Maria
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The earthly paradise : a poem, 1
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs : By William Morris, Author of "The Earthly Paradise". (keine Übersetzung, sondern eine freie, moderne Bearbeitung der Völsunga Saga)
The poetical works of William Morris, III. The Earthly Paradise : A poem
The poetical works of William Morris, VIII. Poems by the way : Love is enough
The poetical works of William Morris, V
News from Nowhere or An Epoch of rest, being some chapters from a Utopian romance by William Morris
The earthly paradise : a poem, 2
A selection from the poems : Ed. with a memoir. Copyright ed.
The poetical works of William Morris, VI
The poetical works of William Morris, X. The Æneids of Virgil : Done into English verse by William Morrison
The poetical works of William Morris, IX. The Odyssey of Homer : Done into English Verse by William Morris
The poetical works of William Morris, I. The Earthly Paradise : A poem
The poetical works of William Morris, VII. The story of Sigurd the Volsung and the fall of the Nibelungs
The poetical works of William Morris, IV
The poetical works of William Morris, II. The Earthly Paradise : A poem
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Article
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, 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 production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he campaigned for socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain.
Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, to a wealthy middle-class family. He came under the strong influence of medievalism while studying classics at Oxford University, where he joined the Birmingham Set. After university, he married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with Pre-Raphaelite artists and poets such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. Webb and Morris designed Red House in Kent where Morris lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving to Bloomsbury, central London. In 1861, Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. decorative arts firm with Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Webb, and others, which became highly fashionable and much in demand. The firm profoundly influenced interior decoration throughout the Victorian period, with Morris designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows. In 1875, he assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris & Co.