William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist; A Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Lee, Francis Watts

9780483696389: William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist; A Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483696382 ISBN 13: 9780483696389

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist; A Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man

In presenting the Dream of jean Ball to an Amer ican public it has been felt that it is hardly to be expected that the average reader will have any very exact knowledge of the conditions of daily life in England five hundred years ago. It may therefore be that there will be some things in the tale which will not be wholly clear without a few words of explanation. And so it has seemed best to incorporate in this introduction a slight Sketch of the economic circumstances which gave shape to the times in which John Ball lived and labored, that the deep Signifi cance of Mr. Morris's tale, as well as its matchless beauty, may be the more readily appreciated.

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