a victorian boy, growing up

I've read & enjoyed Fiona McCarthy's biography of Morris; and of course I was introduced to his great romances via the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, with those lovely Gervassio Gallardo covers, as a teenager. A truly Protean human being! And his Utopian Socialism appeals to me greatly, though I don't feel it's quite as impossibly Utopian as many seem to think it is -- at the very least, his vision of life, a whole & richly meaningful life, is a worthy one. I'm currently re-reading all of his romances slowly, deliciously,and savoring them deeply -- the literary equivalent of his visual designs, in many ways, and quite powerful on a symbolic level as well as on a narrative one, I'd say. Just a damn good storyteller! :)