The Earthly Paradise

By William Morris

Release : 1868-01-01

Genre : Poetry, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

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Twentieth-century counterparts and descendants of such historicism have suffered various forms of critical deflation. For Morris, however, these convictions prefigured the "secular religion" of socialism which he practiced and preached with great vigor in middle age, and he refashioned and reexpressed emotionally charged legends and ancient literary motifs with an unusual sense of purpose and tolerance for complexity and moral ambiguity.

The Earthly Paradise

By William Morris

Release : 1868-01-01

Genre : Poetry, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Twentieth-century counterparts and descendants of such historicism have suffered various forms of critical deflation. For Morris, however, these convictions prefigured the "secular religion" of socialism which he practiced and preached with great vigor in middle age, and he refashioned and reexpressed emotionally charged legends and ancient literary motifs with an unusual sense of purpose and tolerance for complexity and moral ambiguity.

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