![]() ![]() It was also written in response to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, the most popular of the period's many "utopian" projections, an American work which portrays a techno-centric, industrial and regimented society. News from Nowhere contains many echoes of Thomas More's Utopia. Among other things, News is his considered statement of his views on these questions. This original context is reflected in News' reference to his socialist activities, and to socialists' heated discussion of the nature of an ideal society and how to obtain it. News from Nowhere was serialized in Commonweal, Morris's newspaper for the Socialist League. In the early 1880s he had become a socialist, and at the time of the writing of his utopia he was in his late 50s and was one of the leaders of the Socialist League. William Morris (1834-96) was a poet, designer, translator of the Icelandic sagas, writer of prose romances, founder of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and a pioneer in fine book design. ![]()
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