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People best remembered wallpaper and furniture designs of
William Morris
, British painter, craftsman, and social reformer, whose poetry includes
Sigurd the Volsung
, the epic in 1876.
The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement associated William Morris, an English architect, textile, artist, writer, and Marxist. Morris wrote and published fiction and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. He worked his known
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
(1858).
William Morris wrote
The Earthly Paradise
(1868–1870),
A Dream of John Ball
, and the utopian
News from Nowhere
.
William Morris, an important figure in the emergence, founded the Socialist league in 1884 but broke with the movement over goals and methods before the end of 1880s, that decade.
He founded the press of Kelmscott in 1891 and devoted much of the rest of his life. People consider the edition, masterpiece of Kelmscott of 1896 of the
Works
, book of
Geoffrey Chaucer
.
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