Letter: How Ruskin saw Morris

Clive Wilmer
Saturday 11 May 1996 23:02 BST
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Tim Hilton suggests that William Morris's politics "are not only irrelevant but objectionable". In fact Morris was a revolutionary socialist who argued that art could only be fulfilled in a society based on human need rather than profit. This explains why the Tories who run the Post Office prefer a stamp of Muffin the Mule to William Morris.

Keith Flett

London N17

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