Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, novelist, artist, designer, and socialist. Major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he befriended Ned Jones (later Sir Edward Burne-Jones) through whom he joined the Birmingham Set, which included Canon Dixon. Upon moving to London in 1856, became a disciple of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Published the short-lived Oxford and Cambridge Magazine in 1856. Married Jane Burden on 26 April 1859. Founded the influential decorating company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., in 1861. In 1884 published A Summary of the Principles of Socialism and co-founded The Socialist League. Established the Kelmscott Press in 1891. Author of several volumes of poetry including The Defence of Guinevere, and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1866-70), and Poems by the Way (1891). Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)