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Was William Morris a Marxist?
Despite being called a utopian and even an anarchist, Morris’s writings and his participation in Britain’s first Marxist groups make it clear whose politics he followed, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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A CENTURY and a half ago, William Morris published an epic which established his reputation as one of the foremost poets of his day.
The Earthly Paradise is essentially a collection of ancient myths and legends drawn from classical mythology or medieval and Icelandic sagas, retold by a group of Norsemen who have fled a plague, setting sail in search of a land of everlasting life “where none grow old.”
They don’t find it but, returning “shrivelled, bent and grey,” they are welcomed into a “nameless city in a distant sea” where they spend the rest of their lives, swapping tales with their hosts.
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