Excerpt from Stories From the Earthly Paradise

With Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris stands at the head of that little group of so-called '?sthetic' poets, whose work exercised so great an influence upon the literature of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Born in 1834, of well-to-do parents, at Walthamstow, he was educated at Marlborough, and later at Exeter College, Oxford. There he came into contact with Burne-Jones, already in revolt against the accepted canons of art so far as painting was concerned, and the friendship that ensued confirmed in both young men that taste for the romantic and the archaic which they were to develop along such different lines. With Morris, other, and perhaps stronger, influences succeeded, but they were all in the same direction. The art that most interested him was the art which claimed beauty as its sole end and aim, and which sought for beauty in things remote from the realities of common life.

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