William Morris

by Alfred Noyes

William Morris is explored in a clear, engaging biography that reveals how his work reshaped art, literature, and design.

This biography by Alfred Noyes traces Morris’s life from his early influences through his major creative achievements. It surveys his poetry, his ventures in art, furniture, printing, and his role in the broader crafts movement, all set against the social and religious currents of his time.

What you’ll experience A coherent life story that links Morris’s ideas to his projects, including his famous houses, workshops, and publications. Discussion of key works such as The Earthly Paradise, Love is Enough, Sigurd the Volsung, and the Kelmscott Press era. Insight into Morris’s influences, friendships, and the evolution of his aesthetic and social beliefs. Context for Morris’s lasting impact on art, design, and literature, framed for general readers. Ideal for readers of literary biography, art and design history, and fans of Morris’s enduring vision.

174 pages, Hardcover

First published July 14, 2015

About the author

Alfred Noyes was the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. His father was a teacher and taught Latin and Greek and in Aberystwyth, Wales. In 1898, Alfred attended Exeter College in Oxford. Though he failed to earn a degree, the young poet published his first collection of poetry, The Loom of Years, in 1902.

Between 1903 and 1908, Noyes published five volumes of poetry including The Forest of Wild Thyme (1905) and The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907). His books were widely reviewed and were published both in Britain and the United States. Among his best-known poems from this time are The Highwayman and Drake. Drake, which appeared serially in Blackwood's Magazine, was a two-hundred page epic about life at sea.

Noyes married Garnett Daniels in 1907, and they had three children. His increasing popularity allowed the family to live off royalty cheques. In 1914, Noyes accepted a teaching position at Princeton University, where he taught English Literature until 1923. He was a noted critic of modernist writers, particularly James Joyce. Likewise, his work at this time was criticized by some for its refusal to embrace the modernist movement.

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