"To Morris we owe poetry whose perfect precision and clearness of word and vision has not been excelled in the literature of our country, and by the revival of the decorative arts he has given to our individualised romantic movement the social idea and the social factor also."
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Oscar Wilde, βThe English Renaissance of Artβ, (1882). Reprinted in Ross, Robert, Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde. Methuen and Co, London, 1908
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William Morris
(24 March 1834 β 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British .
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