《Selected Writings And Designs》

Acknowledgements9

Introduction13

Note on Books21

Chronological Table23

ONE PROLOGUE：ELEMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY27

1．＇A Rather Long-Winded Sketch of My Very Uneventful Life＇．From a letter of 5 September 188329

2．How I Became a Socialist，189433

TWO ROMANCE39

3．Margaret＇s Song from The Hollow Land，185641

4．＇Sir Galahad，A Christmas Mystery＇，from The Defence of Guenevere，185841

5．＇Golden Wings＇，from The Defence of Guenevere48

6．＇The Haystack in the Floods＇，from The Defence of Guenevere56

7．＇Near Avalon＇，from The Defence of Guenevere61

8．＇Praise of My Lady＇，from The Defence of Guenevere61

9．Lines from the unfinished Scenes from the Fall of Troy，185764

10．＇A Garden by the Sea＇，from The Life and Death of Jason，186765

11．Envoi to The Earthly Paradise，1868-7066

12．First lines from the Prologue to The Earthly Paradise68

13．Opening lines for October，from the Earthly Paradise69

14．Opening lines for November，from The Earthly Paradise69

15．＇The Doomed Ship＇ (unpublished by Morris；written c．1867-70)70

16．Prefatory Sonnet to The Story of Grettir the Strong，186971

17．＇Iceland First Seen＇，from Poems by the Way，189171

18．Envoi to The Eyrbyggja Saga，187074

19．Opening lines from Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs，187675

20．＇In Prison＇，185876

THREE COMMITMENT77

21．Discontent，Personal and Social．From a letter of 26 March 187479

22．The Eastern Question．From the manifesto To the Workingmen of England，May 187780

23．＇Anti-Scrape＇：81

(a)The Need for an Association．Letter to The Athenaeum，10 March 187781

(b) The Vulgarization of Oxford．Letter to the Daily News，20 November 188582

(c) Stratford-on-Avon Church．Letter to The Times，15 August 189083

24．Innate Socialism．From a lecture，The Lesser Arts，187884

25．Civilization．From The Beauty of Life，1880105

26．Popular Art．From some Hints on Pattern Designing，1881106

FOUR SOCIALISM111

27．＇The Cause．＇ From Art and the People，1883111

28．＇The Message of the March Wind．＇ Poem from The Pilgrims of Hope，1885111

29．＇The March of the Workers．＇ Poem from Chants for Socialists，1885114

30．Preaching Socialism．From an article in Commonweal，April 1886116

31．Useful Work Versus Useless Toil，1885117

32．＇A Matter of Religion．＇ From a letter of 1 July 1883136

33．Socialism in Perspective．From a letter of 24 July 1884137

34．Art and Society．Letter to the Manchester Examiner，14 March 1883139

35．The Worker＇s Share of Art．From an article in Commonweal，April 1885140

36．Art and the Future：＇The Deeper Meaning of the Struggle．＇ Letter to the Daily Chronicle，10 November 1893143

37．My Time and Yours：The Lighter Surface of the Story．Extract from the play，The Tables Turned，or Nupkins Awakened，1887145

38．Education Today．From an articlein Commonweal，June 1888146

39．Education for Tomorrow．From an article in Commonweal，March 1886148

40．Self-Help No Remedy．From a letter of 1 June 1884149

41．Good-Will No Remedy．From a letter of 25 October 1883150

42．＇A Theory of Life．＇ From Four Letters on Socialism，1894151

43．＇A Society of Equality．＇ From Communism，1893，published 1903154

44．Socialist Morality．From The Aims of Art，1887155

45．Capitalist Morality．From Commonweal，October 1886156

46．A Death Song，written for the funeral of Alfred Linnell，1887156

47．＇The day that yet shall be＇，from The Pilgrims of Hope157

48．How we live and how we might live，1888158

49．Facing the Worst．From an article in Commonweal，February 1887179

FIVE UTOPIA181

50．New from Nowhere，1890183

SIX EPILOGUE：PROTEST AND REST303

51．The Last May Day．From an article in Justice，1 May 1896305

52．The Experts of Epping．Letter to the Daily Chronicle，23 April 1895307

53．Inscription for an Embroidery for his Old Bed，1891309