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Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 13

Note on Books 21

Chronological Table 23

ONE PROLOGUE：ELEMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 27

1．＇A Rather Long-Winded Sketch of My Very Uneventful Life＇．From a letter of 5 September 1883 29

2．How I Became a Socialist，1894 33

TWO ROMANCE 39

3．Margaret＇s Song from The Hollow Land，1856 41

4．＇Sir Galahad，A Christmas Mystery＇，from The Defence of Guenevere，1858 41

5．＇Golden Wings＇，from The Defence of Guenevere 48

6．＇The Haystack in the Floods＇，from The Defence of Guenevere 56

7．＇Near Avalon＇，from The Defence of Guenevere 61

8．＇Praise of My Lady＇，from The Defence of Guenevere 61

9．Lines from the unfinished Scenes from the Fall of Troy，1857 64

10．＇A Garden by the Sea＇，from The Life and Death of Jason，1867 65

11．Envoi to The Earthly Paradise，1868-70 66

12．First lines from the Prologue to The Earthly Paradise 68

13．Opening lines for October，from the Earthly Paradise 69

14．Opening lines for November，from The Earthly Paradise 69

15．＇The Doomed Ship＇ (unpublished by Morris；written c．1867-70) 70

16．Prefatory Sonnet to The Story of Grettir the Strong，1869 71

17．＇Iceland First Seen＇，from Poems by the Way，1891 71

18．Envoi to The Eyrbyggja Saga，1870 74

19．Opening lines from Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs，1876 75

20．＇In Prison＇，1858 76

THREE COMMITMENT 77

21．Discontent，Personal and Social．From a letter of 26 March 1874 79

22．The Eastern Question．From the manifesto To the Workingmen of England，May 1877 80

23．＇Anti-Scrape＇： 81

(a) The Need for an Association．Letter to The Athenaeum，10 March 1877 81

(b) The Vulgarization of Oxford．Letter to the Daily News，20 November 1885 82

(c) Stratford-on-Avon Church．Letter to The Times，15 August 1890 83

24．Innate Socialism．From a lecture，The Lesser Arts，1878 84

25．Civilization．From The Beauty of Life，1880 105

26．Popular Art．From some Hints on Pattern Designing，1881 106

FOUR SOCIALISM 111

27．＇The Cause．＇ From Art and the People，1883 111

28．＇The Message of the March Wind．＇ Poem from The Pilgrims of Hope，1885 111

29．＇The March of the Workers．＇ Poem from Chants for Socialists，1885 114

30．Preaching Socialism．From an article in Commonweal，April 1886 116

31．Useful Work Versus Useless Toil，1885 117

32．＇A Matter of Religion．＇ From a letter of 1 July 1883 136

33．Socialism in Perspective．From a letter of 24 July 1884 137

34．Art and Society．Letter to the Manchester Examiner，14 March 1883 139

35．The Worker＇s Share of Art．From an article in Commonweal，April 1885 140

36．Art and the Future：＇The Deeper Meaning of the Struggle．＇ Letter to the Daily Chronicle，10 November 1893 143

37．My Time and Yours：The Lighter Surface of the Story．Extract from the play，The Tables Turned，or Nupkins Awakened，1887 145

38．Education Today．From an article in Commonweal，June 1888 146

39．Education for Tomorrow．From an article in Commonweal，March 1886 148

40．Self-Help No Remedy．From a letter of 1 June 1884 149

41．Good-Will No Remedy．From a letter of 25 October 1883 150

42．＇A Theory of Life．＇ From Four Letters on Socialism，1894 151

43．＇A Society of Equality．＇ From Communism，1893，published 1903 154

44．Socialist Morality．From The Aims of Art，1887 155

45．Capitalist Morality．From Commonweal，October 1886 156

46．A Death Song，written for the funeral of Alfred Linnell，1887 156

47．＇The day that yet shall be＇，from The Pilgrims of Hope 157

48．How we live and how we might live，1888 158

49．Facing the Worst．From an article in Commonweal，February 1887 179

FIVE UTOPIA 181

50．New from Nowhere，1890 183

SIX EPILOGUE：PROTEST AND REST 303

51．The Last May Day．From an article in Justice，1 May 1896 305

52．The Experts of Epping．Letter to the Daily Chronicle，23 April 1895 307

53．Inscription for an Embroidery for his Old Bed，1891 309