Dreamer of Dreams

Dreamer of Dreams is a critical biography that highlights William Morris’s radical and transformative vision of art. Through close exploration of his visual designs, poems and stories, as well as his prolific career as a lecturer and activist and his creation of the Kelmscott Press later in life, Nicholas Frankel demonstrates Morris’s commitment to the idea of beauty as a vehicle for social transformation, justice and heightened environmental consciousness.Art was a means for change, not an end in itself, and Morris despised the idea that it should be enjoyed by only a privileged few. Serving as a portrait of the artist as a committed agent of change, this book underscores Morris’s relevance to our own times, no less than to the world in which he lived.