"In essays and lectures, William Morris examines the relation between art and politics, the possibilities for a socialist society, and the crimes of empire, among other subjects. This essential anthology demonstrates Morris's profound commitment to nineteenth-century socialism"--

"In essays and lectures, William Morris examines the relation between art and politics, the possibilities for a socialist society, and the crimes of empire, among other subjects. This essential anthology demonstrates Morris's profound commitment to nineteenth-century socialism"--

William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly 50 years, shows Morris as one of the most original and inspiring socialist intellectuals of his generation.

Covering essays and lectures ranging through the relation between art and politics, to his visions for a socialist society and his strident anti-imperialism, this is an essential volume which shows Morris as the engaged and committed socialist that he was.