The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
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About This Book
William Morris (1834-1896) was an English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, best known as a designer of wallpaper and patterned fabrics, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain. Morris and his friends formed an artistic movement, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. They eschewed the tawdry industrial manufacture of decorative arts and architecture and favoured a return to hand-craftsmanship, raising artisans to the status of artists. He espoused the philosophy that art shou...
Chapters (27)
- THE PILGRIMS OF HOPE AND CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS
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- CONTENTS
- THE PILGRIMS OF HOPE
- I THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND
- II THE BRIDGE AND THE STREET
- III SENDING TO THE WAR
- IV MOTHER AND SON
- V NEW BIRTH
- VI THE NEW PROLETARIAN
- VII IN PRISON—AND AT HOME
- VIII THE HALF OF LIFE GONE
- IX A NEW FRIEND
- X READY TO DEPART
- XI A GLIMPSE OF THE COMING DAY
- XII MEETING THE WAR-MACHINE
- XIII THE STORY’S ENDING
- CHANTS FOR SOCIALISTS
- THE DAY IS COMING
- THE VOICE OF TOIL
- NO MASTER
- ALL FOR THE CAUSE
- THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS
- DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
- A DEATH SONG
- MAY DAY [1892]
- MAY DAY, 1894
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