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    Inscription for an Old Bed
    Inscription for an Old Bed
    Inscription for an Old Bed
    Audiobook14 minutes

    Inscription for an Old Bed

    Written by William Morris

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Inscription for an Old Bed by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20th, 2010.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Inscription for an Old Bed
    Author

    William Morris

    William Morris (1834-1896) was an accomplished writer, textile designer and artist. A utopian socialist, he was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Craft Movement, and was a founding member of the Socialist League in Britain. Greatly influenced by the medieval period, Morris helped establish the modern fantasy genre though his works The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, A Dream of John Ball, and The Well at the World’s End. Authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were greatly influenced by works like The House of the Wolfings, The Roots of the Mountains, and The Wood Beyond the World. Morris was also an accomplished publisher, founding the Kelmscott Press in 1891, whose 1896 edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

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