Volume 24, Number 12 · July 14, 1977
Mining Morris
By Geoffrey Grigson
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
by E.P. Thompson
Pantheon, 828 pp., $17.95
William Morris and the Art of the Book
edited by Paul Needham, with essays by Paul Needham, by Joseph Dunlap, by John Dreyfus
The Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford University Press, 140, 114 pages of plates pp., $55.00
The Tamar dividing Devonshire from Cornwall is one of the more delectable of the small rivers of England. There were, above its woods and declivities, mines which yielded lead, silver, copper, and arsenic. The arsenic ovens—for a while the most extensive in the world—did foul damage along the river, about which a Devonshire poet, N. T. Carrington, wrote, in an old-style poem,
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