William Morris: Art and Kelmscott.(Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Prouty, William | Copyright information

Linda Parry, ed. William Morris: Art and Kelmscott. Occasional Papers of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Suffolk: The Boydell P, 1996. x + 144 pp. $30.00.

THERE IS LITTLE QUESTION that William Morris brought on his own early death at sixty-two by excessive industriousness--or so his doctor implied in his famous diagnosis--that his patient's terminal illness was induced by "simply being William Morris and having done more work than most ten men." These two recent bo...

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