Full Description
William Morris is one of the most admired figures of the Victorian era. Studies of his Art and his life fill the shelves of libraries. Yet for all this accessibility, an air of uncertainty has always clouded his image. Since Morris's death, biographers and scholars have portrayed the artist as a victim, bound to an adulterous wife. In Art and Forbidden Fruit, John Le Bourgeois lifts this veil of appearances, and shows the truth about Morris's life. In a close analysis of Morrisís poetry and biography, the author asserts the early existence of an emotional attachment between William Morris and his sister Emma, and how she became the principal source of his inspiration. Le Bourgeois follows the paths of Morris the artist and Morris the man, and points out the links between the poetís love for his sister and his evolution as an artist. Art and Forbidden Fruit provides a highly original biography of William Morris that offers a new perspective on his life and a fresh interpretation of his art by a specialist.
Contents
1. 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.
