Secondary sources on his politics

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    • William Morris, A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy (2010, 1994)
    • The Work of William Morris, Paul Thompson (1993)
    • William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, E. P. Thompson (2013)
    • William Morris, Nicholas Salmon
    • William Morris by himself, 1990
    • Tony Pinkney, 2007
    • Political Writings, A. L. Morton (1973)
    • Early Days of the Socialist Movement, Glasier Faulkner (1994)
    • Against the Age, Faulkner (2011)
    • Reclaiming William Morris, Michelle Weinroth (1996)
    • William Morris: A Vindication by Robin Page Arnot (29 Nov 2012)
    • Crossing the River of Fire, Hassan Mahamdallie (7 Jul 2008)
    • Reform and Revolution: Three Early Socialists on the Way Ahead (William Morris Library) by William Morris, etc., John Carruthers and Fred Henderson (1 Mar 1996)
    • William Morris, Ruth Kinna (2000)
    • Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris by Florence Saunders Boos and Carole G. Silver (30 Apr 1990)
    • William Morris, Charles Harvey (1996)
    • A Factory as it might be, Colin Ward (1994)
    • Commonweal, 1885-1890, Nick Salmon (1996)
    • William Morris Chronology, Nick Salmon (1996)
  2. The Idler
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    Many more detailed (on his art and politics) here
    http://www.morrissociety.org/morris/bibliography.html
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    Morris's Political and Social Thought

    Anderson, Perry. "Utopias," in Arguments within English Marxism. London: New Left Books, 1980.
    Boos, Florence. "An Aesthetic Eco-communist: Morris the Red and Morris the Green," in William Morris: Centenary Essays, eds. Peter Faulkner and Peter Preston. University of Exeter Press, 1999.
    Boos, Florence, introduction to William Morris's Socialist Diary. http://www.marxists.org/archive/morr...iary/index.htm
    Boos, Florence. "News from Nowhere and 'Garden Cities': Morris's Utopia and Nineteenth-Century Town Design." http://www.morrissociety.org/agregation/boos.html
    Brinton, Crane. Morris in English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century. London: Ernest Benn, 1949.
    Cole, G. D. H., William Morris as a Socialist. London: William Morris Society, 1960.
    Coleman, Stephen and Paddy O'Sullivan eds. William Morris and News from Nowhere: A Vision for Our Time. Bideford, Devon: Green Books, 1990.
    Donovan, Andrea. William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. New York: Routledge, 2008.
    Gadoin, Isabele. News from Nowhere: William Morris. Paris: Ellipses, 2004. [a collection of essays]
    Glasier, J. Bruce. William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement. London: Longmans, Green, 1921.
    Goode, John. "William Morris and the Dream of Revolution." In Literature and Politics of the Nineteenth Century, ed. John Lucas. London: Methuen, 1971.
    Gould, Peter C. Early Green Politics: Back to Nature, Back to the Land, and Socialism in Britain 1880-1900. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester,1988.
    Grennan, Magaret R. William Morris: Medievalist and Revolutionary. New York: King's Crown Press, 1945.
    Hulse, James. Revolutionaries in London: A Study of Five Unorthodox Socialists. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
    Kinna, Ruth. William Morris. The Art of Socialism. Cardiff: U Wales Press, 2000.
    Laurent, Beatrice. William Morris: News from Nowhere. Nantes: Editions du Temps, 2004.
    Levitas, Ruth. The Concept of Utopia. Syracuse UP, 1990.
    Macdonald, Bradley J. William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, 1999.
    Meier, Paul. William Morris: The Marxist Dreamer. Translated by Frank Gubb. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Harvester Press, 1978.
    Morton, A. L. introduction to The Political Writings of William Morris. New York: International Press, 1973.
    Morton, A. L., introduction to Three Works by William Morris. New York: International Press, 1973.
    Payne, John. Journey Up the Thames: William Morris and Modern England. Nottingham: Five Leaves Publications, 2000.
    Pepper, David. Eco-socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice. London: Routledge, 1993.
    Salmon, Nicholas, introduction to William Morris: Journalism, Contributions to Commonweal, 1885-1890. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
    Salmon, Nicholas, introduction to William Morris: Political Writings, Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883–1890. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.
    Silver, Carole. "Eden and Apocalypse: William Morris's Marxist Vision in the 1880's." University of Hartford Studies in Literature 13 (1981).
    Thompson, E. P. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. 2nd ed. New York: Pantheon, 1978. With an afterward by the author noting changes in his opinions in the 23 years since the first edition.
    Thompson, Paul. The Work of William Morris. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
    Thompson, Paul. Why William Morris Matters Today: Human Creativity and the Future World Environment. London: William Morris Society, 1991.
    von Helmhotz-Phelan, Anna A. The Social Philosophy of William Morris. Durham: Duke University Press 1927.
    Williams, Raymond. "Socialism and Ecology," in Robin Gable, ed., Resources of Hope: Culture: Democracy, Socialism. London: Verso, 1989.