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Introduction: Morris in 1996. Morris and the environment: an aestheticecocommunist - Morris and the Red and Morris and the Green. Morris andliterature: shadow of turning in "The Earthly Paradise"; heroic poetry in anunheroic age - Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung"; the Troy connection - myth andhistory in "Sigurd the Volsung"; Beatrice and Ellen - ideal guides from hellto paradise; William Morris and the bear - theme, magic and totem in theromances; interiors and exteriors "News from Nowhere" and "The Spoils ofPoynton". Morris, the arts and crafts and the New World: sacred and profanelove - the Oxford Union murals; "The Beautiful Book that Was" - WilliamMorris and the gift of "A Book of Verse"; William Morris in New England -architecture and design in late 19th-century Rhode Island; William Morris and19th-century Boston; "Every artist would be a workman, and every workman anartist" - Morrisian and arts and crafts ideals at the Ontario EducationalAssociation, 1900-1920; the dilemma of place - arts and crafts architecturein the Antipodes. Morris, gender and politics: William Morris and Victorianmanliness; beyond the law of the "New Woman" in "News from Nowhere"; "LadyGriselda's Dream" May Morris's forgotten play; Morris, anti-statism andanarchy; E.P. Thompson and William Morris.