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M AC KAI L ILLIAM MORRIS, one of the most eminent imaginative ff writers of the Victorian age, di ers from most other poets —first he and men of letters in two ways , did great work in many other things as well as in literature ; secondly, he had beliefs of his own about the meaning and conduct of life, about all that men ff m think and do and make, very di erent fro those of ordinary people, and he carried out these views in his writings as well as in all the other work he did throughout his life . 1 8 He was born in 3 4 . His father, a member of a business firm i n in the City of London , was a wealthy man and lived in Essex, a country house with large gardens and fields belonging to it, on the edge of Epping Forest . Until the age of thirteen Morris was at home among a large family of brothers and sisters . He delighted in the country life and especially in the Forest, which is one of the most romantic parts of England , and which he made the scene of many real and imaginary adventures . From fourteen to eighteen m d he was at school at Marlborough a ong the Wiltshire owns, in t he a country full of beauty and history, and close to another of ancient forests of England , that of Savernake . He proceeded from m school to Exeter College, Oxford , where he soon for ed a close friendship with a remarkable set of young m e n of his own a ge chief ’ among these, and Morris s closest friend for the rest of his life , was - d Edward Burne Jones, the painter . Stu y of the works of John V Z e o b S vi BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODU CTION Ruskin confirmed them in the admiration which they already felt m m o f for the life and art of the Middle Ages . In the su er vacation 1 8 55 the two friends went to Northern France to se e the beautiful towns and splendid churches with which that count ry had been filled between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries ; and there they made up their minds that they cared fo r art m ore than for anything else , such as wealth or ease or the opinion of the world , and that as soon as they left Oxford they would becom e a rt ist ss ‘ By art they meant the m aking of beauty for the adornment and t.
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