This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series brings together a selection of William Morris's poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters, with an introduction and notes that emphasize his rich literary and historical connections and the relevance of his prescient writing to pressing issues of the modern world.

Ingrid Hanson took her first degree at Cambridge and returned to academia after fifteen years working in journalism, freelance writing, and community teaching, gaining her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2011. She has taught at the universities of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam, and Hull and is currently Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester. She has published work on William Morris, Victorian medievalism, masculinities, Victorian socialist poetry and periodicals, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century anti-war literature. She has spoken about William Morris as an expert guest on Radio 4's In Our Time and on Radio 3's The Essay.