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Book SynopsisA sharp and provocative study of the life and works of the 19th Century artist and designer William Morris, revealing new insights into the links between his relationships and his artistic inspiration.
Trade Review"John Le Bourgeois ventures a radical reinterpretation of the marriage between William Morris and Jane Burden, whose adulterous relationship to Dante Gabriel Rossetti always has been mediated for us by his poems and paintings devoted to her. Le Bourgeois convincingly suggests that Morris himself was culpable, because of his repressed passion for his sister Emma. ... Le Bourgeois' book is responsible and poignant, and has altered my understanding of this tangled web." Harold Bloom
Table of Contents1. He felt the separation keenly. 2. Do you keep your child-love, Brother?. 3. Think how long I have worshipped you, looked on the world through your eyes. 4. How Sir Palomydes loved La Belle Iseult with exceeding great love out of measure. 5. There comes no sleep nor any love; Ah me! I shiver with delight. 6. As for me, I choke and grow quite faint to see My lady moving graciously. 7. She stayed me, and cried "Brother!" our lips met. 8. And think how it be if they were gone not to return. 9. They have hopes that they are not conscious of. 10. As my twin sister, young of years was she and slender. 11. How can I help it, not knowing whether I am on my head or my heels. 12. The world goes on, beautiful and strange and dreadful and worshipful. 13. Do you know them? - Greedy gamblers on the Stock Exchange. 14. They lie in prison for it, work in mines, are exiled, and ruined for it. 15. We got pleasure into our work; then we became conscious of that pleasure. 16. A childish heart there loved me once, and lo I took his love and cast his love away.
