The Resurrection of Art

At the base of their artistic creations a desire for a deeper spiritual value to be given to art, as well as a more decorative value. They would draw and paint nothing but what they saw. Later there came to the old house by Black Fryer's Bridge, where this young brotherhood used to meet and work. Two young men from Oxford, Edward Burn Jones and William Morris. The latter substituting for the simpler realism of the early days, a more exquisite spirit of choice,. A more faultless devotion to beauty, a more intense seeking for perfection. To Morris we owe poetry whose perfect precision and clearness of word and vision has not been excelled in the literature of our country.