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Chapter XII traces how daily work in dye-pots and looms could not fully absorb his mind, as broader voices urged him toward social and artistic renewal. It explores his measured distance from poetry-as-constraint, the gradual redirection of creative energy into improving social life, and the personal cost of decisions such as leaving Kelmscott.","1 RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN LIBRARY\nReg. No\t691\tW;\tfj\nClas. No.\tVfTf -\nTHE LIFE OF WILLIAM MORRIS\n,U^777\nyt'fcryi^\nTHE LIFE OF\nWILLIAM MORRIS\nBY\nJ. W. MAC KAIL\nVOLUME II\n' *7\nLONGMANS, GREEN AND CO LONDON, NEW YORK & BOMBAY 1899\nVI\nCONTENTS\nPAGE\nCHAPTER XIX\nPassive Socialism : Foundation of the Kelmscott\nCHAPTER XX\nPrinting, Romance-writing, Translation, and Criticism: Final Attitude towards Art and History: 1891-1893\t267\nCHAPTER XXI\nLast Years: The Kelmscott Chaucer: 1894-1896\t299\nPress: 1890-1891\n230\nCHAPTER XXII\nIlicet\n327\nIndex\n353\n»\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME II\nTO FACE PAGE\nWilliam Morris, set. 53. From a photograph by F. Hollyer\tFrontispiece\nThe Manor House, Kelmscott, from the Kitchen-\ngarden.\tFrom a drawing by E. H. New .\t18\nThe Mill Pond, with the Weaving and Printing Sheds, Merton Abbey. From a drawing by E. H. New\t34\nThe Glass-painting Sheds, Merton Abbey, from the Dye-house. From a drawing by E. H.\nNew\t42\nThe Chintz-printing Room,\tMerton Abbey.\nFrom a drawing by E. H.\tNew ....\t56\nPart of the Drawing-room, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. From a drawing by E. H.\nNew\t86\nThe Manor House, Kelmscott,\tfrom the Garden.\nFrom a drawing by E. H.\tNew ....\t222\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\nTO FACE PAGE\nWilliam Morris’s Bedroom at the Manor House, Kelmscott, from the Tapestry-room. From a drawing by E. H. New\t268\nWilliam Morris’s Study, Kelmscott House, Ham\u001fmersmith. From a drawing by E. H. New 322\nThe Manor House, Kelmscott, from the Home-\nmead. From a drawing by E. H. New .\t350\n#\nTHE LIFE OF WILLIAM MORRIS\nCHAPTER XII\nLONDON AND KELMSCOTT: THEORIES OF ART AND LIFE\n1879-1881\nBut work among his dye-pots and looms, interesting and fascinating as he found it, could not fill up the whole of his mind. In spite of the variable excitement and the more settled rest of this daily work, voices from an outer world kept calling him more and more imperiously. For a time he tried to think that it was the voice of poetry that was calling, but the fancy brought no real convidtion. cf As to poetry,” he writes in Odtober, 1879,cc I don’t know, and I don’t know. The verse would come easy enough if I had only a subjedt which would fill my heart and mind : but to write verse for the sake of writing is a crime in a man of my years and experience.” He had in fadfc produced his poetry: the instindts of creation and invention had to find new outlets ; and gradually the fabric of social life itself became the field which, as he had done with specific arts already, he tried to redeem from commercialism and ugliness, and to reinstate on a sounder basis. He recognized the gravity of the enter\u001fprise ; yet it did not then seem to him a desperate one.\n“ I have seen a many wonders, and have a good memory * for them; and in spite of all grumblings have a hope ; that civilized people will grow weary of their worst follies * II.\tB\n2\nTHE LIFE OF\nand try to live a less muddled and unreasonable life ; not of course that we shall see much of that change in the remnant that is left of our days.”\nIn this hope, and for work at anything that might lead towards its accomplishment, he was willing to give up ease and leisure, and much of what made life desirable. And one can trace the convi&ion growing in him very slowly, that towards forwarding the work some renun\u001fciation was necessary—it might be, he thought with a sudden pang, the giving up of Kelmscott. “ I am sit\u001fting now, io p.m.,” he writes from there in late autumn, ct in the tapestry-room, the moon rising red through the east-wind haze, and a cow lowing over the fields. I have been feeling chastened by many thoughts, and the beauty and quietness of the surroundings, which latter, as I hinted, I am, as it were, beginning to take leave of. That leave-taking will, I must confess, though you may think it fantastic, seem a long step towards saying good\u001fnight to the world.”\nHis ease, his leisure, in effe\u003C5t we may say his life, he did give up for the sake of this hope: but the giving up of Kelmscott was a pang that was spared to him. 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