Edward Thompson. William Morris.

CONTENTS

Foreword to the 2011 Edition / Peter Linebaugh

Foreword to the 1976 Edition

PART ONE

WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE ROMANTIC REVOLT

I – Sir Launcelot and Mr Gradgrind

II – Oxford—Carlyle and Ruskin

III – Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites

IV – The First Joust with Victorianism

PART TWO

THE YEARS OF CONFLICT

I – William Morris and the Decorative Arts

II – The Poetry of Despair

III – “Love is Enough”

IV – Hope and Courage

V – Action

VI – The ‘Anti-Scrape’

VII – The River of Fire

PART THREE

PRACTICAL SOCIALISM

I – The First Two Hundred

II – The First Propaganda

III – The Split

IV – The Socialist League, 1885-6: “Making Socialists”

V – The Socialists make contact with the masses, 1887-8

VI – The Last Years of the Socialist League

VII – Towards a United Socialist Party, 1890-96

PART FOUR

NECESSITY AND DESIRE

Necessity and Desire

APPENDICES

I – The Manifesto of the Socialist League

II – William Morris, Bruce Glasier and Marxism

Postscript: 1976