His sister, Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), the author of much religious verse, shows the unaffected naturalness of the new movement. This stanza from her _Amor Mundi_ (_Love of the World_) is characteristic:-- "So they two went together in glowing August weather, The honey-breathing heather lay to their left and right; And dear she was to doat on, her swift feet seemed to float on The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight." William Morris (1834-1896), Oxford graduate, decorator, manufacturer, printer, and poet, was born near London. He was fascinated by _The Blessed Damozel_, and his first and most poetical volume, _The Defence of Guinevere and Other Poems_ (1858), shows Rossetti's influence. The simplicity insisted on by the new school is evident in such lines as these from _Two Red Roses across the Moon_:-- "There was a lady lived in a hall, Large in the eyes and slim and tall; And ever she sung from noon to noon, Two red roses across the moon." Morris later wrote a long series of narrative poems, called _The Earthly Paradise_ (1868-1870) and an epic, _Sigurd the Volsung_ (1876). He turned from Pre-Raphaelitism to become an earnest social reformer. In literature, the Pre-Raphaelite movement disdained the old conventions and started a miniature romantic revival, which emphasized individuality, direct expression, and the use of simple words. Its influence soon became merged in that of the earlier and far greater romantic school. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, 1800-1859 [Illustration: THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. _From the painting by Sir F. Grant, National Portrait Gallery_.] Life.--A prominent figure in the social and political life of England during the first part of the century was Thomas Babington Macaulay, a man of brilliant intellectual powers, strict integrity of character, and enormous capacity for work. He loved England and gloried in her liberties and her commercial prosperity. He served her for many years in the House of Commons, and he bent his whole energy and splendid forensic talent in favor of the Reform Bill of 1832, which secured greater political liberty for England. He was not a theorizer, but a practical man of affairs. Notwithstanding the fact that his political opinions were ready made for him by the Whig party, his career in the House was never "inconsistent with rectitude of intention and independence of spirit." He voted conscientiously for measures, although he personally sacrificed hundreds of pounds by so doing. He was a remarkable talker. A single speech of his has been known to change an entire vote in Parliament. Unlike Coleridge, he did not indulge in monologue, but showed to finest advantage in debate. His power of memory was wonderful. He often startled an opponent by quoting from a given chapter and page of a book. He repeated long passages from _Paradise Lost_; and it is said he could have restored it complete, had it all been lost.