William Morris Archive

'Art and the Beauty of the Earth'


Bibliographic Citation

William Morris, “'Art and the Beauty of the Earth',” William Morris Archive, accessed December 7, 2024, https://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2497.

Title

'Art and the Beauty of the Earth'
William Morris Literary Manuscripts, Vol. XXXVIII (6)

Alternative Title

Essays on Art and History

Creator

William Morris

Date

1886-10-13

Publisher

British Library Add. MS 45,332 (6)

Extent

ff. 106-113

Relation

British Library Add. MS 45,331

Description

'Art and the Beauty of the Earth' delivered at the prizegiving of the schools of Science and Art of the Wedgwood Institute at Burslem Town Hall, 13 Oct. 1881. For text see C.W ., xxii, pp. 155-174. The MS. lacks the first part and beg. at '...something should be done with it which is specially natural to it, something which could not be done with any other'. The lecture is listed under the title of 'England and the Arts' by Briggs, op. cit., p. 10. A MS. of a different version is in 45330, of which a typescript is the following article.