Morris was born into a wealthy merchant family in 1834. In 1853, he entered Oxford University and was influenced by art critic John Ruskin and painter Dante Rolty. He also participated in the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" organized by Rossetti. In 1858, his first collection of poems, Guinevere's Apology and Other Poems, was published. The themes of the short and medium-sized poems in it were mainly taken from Malory's legends about King Arthur and the chronicles of Frassard in the French Middle Ages. The ferocity and cruelty of the rulers of Western European society and the heroic figures who resisted this tyranny and fraud.
In 1861, Morris opened an interior decoration research firm. In 1867, the long poem "The Life and Death of Jason" was published. It was written based on the ancient Greek legend about Jason and Medea. The author In the poem, he claimed to be a disciple of Qiushe. From 1868 to 1870, he published a collection of poems, "Paradise on Earth" (***3 volumes), which included 24 narrative poems and a preface. Its creative technique imitates Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", which tells the story of a group of warriors from Northern Europe in the Middle Ages who discovered an earthly paradise in the ocean where Greek immigrants lived. The guests and hosts enjoyed telling stories during the gathering, so they told 24 stories from ancient times. Stories spread in Greece and medieval Northern Europe. The long poem "Sigurd of the Volsung" (1876) narrates the tragedy of the hero Sigurd, who was often the subject of medieval Icelandic poetry. Sigurd is Siegfried in the long poem "Nibelungenlied" in Old German. The whole poem uses long lines of six syllables to express the characters and storyline.
In 1883, Morris joined the socialist organization "Democratic Association", which was soon renamed "Social Democratic Association". In 1885, he joined the Socialist League and served as the editor-in-chief of its official publication "Public Welfare" until 1890. In 1890, he broke away from the Socialist Alliance and organized the smaller "Hammersmith Socialist Society". In 1890 he founded Kelmscott Printing House.
Morris's late works include the collection of poems "Socialist Poems", most of which call on workers to oppose slavery and exploitation, and also express socialism and *** for the better future. yearning for a communist society. The long poem "The Pursuer of a Better Future" (1885-1886) is somewhat autobiographical, describing the protagonist's childhood and youth life and his subsequent participation in the Paris Commune. The storyline describing his belief in society and his participation in the barricades of the Paris Commune is very moving.
Morris's essay "Dream of John Paul" (1888) describes how a 19th-century socialist dreamed of John Paul, the leader of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the conversation between the two. content. "News from Utopia" (1891) describes his dream travels to various parts of Britain where communism has been realized in the 21st century, so we can see the author's yearning for an ideal communist society.