tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post1649595293604572257..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Merging with EuropeTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-20457950800650980742013-04-20T15:30:02.624-07:002013-04-20T15:30:02.624-07:00Morris has been sentimentalized out of existence. ...Morris has been sentimentalized out of existence. That's why so few read him these days. The chapters in Roots of The Mountains where the Huns are massacred by clean-cut Nordic types always give me a chill. And so does all that weird Freudian symbolism in the last things he wrote. Yeats rated him highly for a jolly good reason. To my way of thinking there are lots of threads that tie him to his contemporaries in Europe and Ireland and point forward rather than backwards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-41772001650912885732013-03-23T05:25:20.082-07:002013-03-23T05:25:20.082-07:00Ingrid is a rising star, David, yes indeed. The b...Ingrid is a rising star, David, yes indeed. The book will make a big impact, I feel sure. It will be much harder to argue for the benign 'green' Morris who's currently so popular when it has demonstrated in detail just how consistent, and sometimes dangerous, Morris's fascination with violence is.Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-11886711384088440752013-03-20T06:27:24.756-07:002013-03-20T06:27:24.756-07:00Dear Tony,
Thanks for that helpful reference. I n...Dear Tony,<br /><br />Thanks for that helpful reference. I note that Ingrid Hanson also has a forthcoming book on: William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856-1890 (Anthem Press, 2013). <br /><br />DavidDavid Leopoldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-2446344169095005922013-03-19T01:13:40.209-07:002013-03-19T01:13:40.209-07:00For an excellent piece which makes a case for Morr...For an excellent piece which makes a case for Morris's European dimension in a much more sustained way than I can here, see Ingrid Hanson's 'Socialist Identity and the Poetry of European Revolution in "Commonweal", 1885-90', forthcoming in 'Poetry, Politics and Pictures, 1840-1914: Cultural Production and the Representation of Identity in Britain and Europe', ed. by Hanson, Jack Rhoden and Erin Snyder (Peter Lang, late 2013).Makiko Minow-Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07706681425693288917noreply@blogger.com