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POETRY (portal)

• EARLY POEMS
  • Preface
  • Contents: Early Poems and Prose of William Morris
  • Early Poems 1-29
  • Early Poems 30-end
  • B. L. Ms. 45,298A
  • B. L. Ms. 45,298B
  • Supplementary Materials
    • Letter in Which Morris Discusses His Early Poems (May 1st, 1891)
    • Notes and Comments on "Scenes from the Fall of Troy," Dr. Peter Wright
    • Articles on Morris's Early Writings
      Articles from The Journal of William Morris Studies
      • Baïssus, J. M. "Morris and the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine."JWMS 5.2 (Winter 1982): 2-13
      • Dewan, Pauline. "Patterns of Enclosure in Morris's Early Stories."JWMS 11.2 (Spring 1995): 9-11
      • Fletcher, Chris. "A Rediscovered and Partly Unpublished Morris Notebook."JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 12-20.
      • Timo, Helen. "A Church Without God: William Morris's A Night in a Cathedral."JWMS 4.2 (Summer 1980): 24-31.
      Other Essays on the Early Writings:
      
      • Boos, Florence S. "The Structure of Morris' Tales for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review 20 (1987), 2-12.
      • Gordon, Walter K. "Pre-Raphaelitism and The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Journal of the Rutgers University Library 29(1966), 42-51.
      • Hosman, Robert Stahr. "The Germ (1850) and The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)." Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 4 (April 1969), 36-47. Hosman, Robert Stahr. "The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, ed. Alvin Sullivan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984, 294-302.
      • Le Mire, Eugene D., ed. Introduction, The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
      • Whitla, William. "William Morris's 'The Mosque Rising in the Place of the Temple of Solomon: A Critical Text.'" Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 9 (Summer 2000), 43-82.
        
    • The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine 1856 (introduction and selections, Rossetti Archive)
    • The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, text in pdf format
• THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE
  • Edition of The Defence of Guenevere, edited by Margaret Lourie
    • Preface
    • Critical Introduction
      • Morris and Medievalism
      • The Nineteenth Century Poetic Heritage
      • The Legacy of Guenevere
      • Source Notes
  • Text
  • Editorial Notes and Annotations
  • Kelmscott 1892 edition
  • 1875 edition
  • 1858 first ed.
  • Supplementary materials
    • Reviews
      • Unsigned notice, Spectator, February 1858, xxxi, 238
      • Richard Garnett, unsigned review, Literary Gazette, March 1858, xlii, 226-7
      • H.F. Chorley, unsigned review, Athenaeum, 3 April 1858, no. 1588, 427-8
      • Unsigned review, Tablet, April 1858, xix, 266
      • Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 20 November 1858, vi, 506-7
      • Unsigned review, Ecclesiastic and Theologian, vol. 20, March 1858, 159-70
    • Recent Criticism
      • Berry, Ralph. "The Symbolism of William Morris." Ralph Berry, JWMS 3.4 (Winter 1978): 20-34.
      • Hodgson, Amanda. "Riding Together: William Morris and Robert Browning."JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 3-7.
      • Hoskins, Robert. "Image and Motif in The Haystack in the Floods." JWMS 3.2 (Summer 1976): 4-7.
      • Jackson, Vanessa Furse. "'Two Red Roses Across the Moon'-Reconsidering Symbolic Implications." Vanessa Furse Jackson, JWMS 12.1 (Autumn 1996): 29-34.
      • Schofield, John. "The Defence of Guenevere and Contemporary Critics." JWMS 3.1 (Spring 1974): 27-30.
      • Helsinger, Elisabeth. "Lyric Colour: Pre-Raphaelite Art and Morris's The Defence of Guenevere." JWMS 15.4(2004): 16-40.
      • Braesel, Michaela. "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris."JWMS 15.4 (2004): 41-54.
      • Miles, Rosie. "Illustrating Morris: The Work of Jessie King and Maxwell Armfield."JWMS 15.4 (2004): 109-135.
      • Williams, Todd O. "Teaching Morris's Early Dream Poems through the Three Registers." Todd O. Williams, JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 99-114.
      • From Carole Silver, The Romance of William Morris, Ohio University Press, 1982, pp. 40-42, 45-46.
      • Armstrong, Isobel.
      • Balch, Dennis R. "Guenevere's Fidelity to Arthur in 'The Defence of Guenevere' and 'King Arthur's Tomb." Victorian Poetry 13.3-4 (1975): 61-70.
      • Boos, Florence. "Justice and Vindication in William Morris's 'The Defence of Guenevere.'" King Arthur Through the Ages, eds. Valerie M. Lagorio and Mildred Leake Day. Vol. 2. Garland Publishing, Inc.: New York, 1990.
      • Boos, Florence. "Sexual Polarities in The Defence of Guenevere." Browning Institute Studies 13 (1985), 181-200.
      • Boos, Florence. "William Morris, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, and the Arthurian Poetry of the 1850s," Arthuriana 6.3 (1996), 31-53.
      • Calhoun, Blue. The Pastoral Vision of William Morris: The Earthly Paradise. Athens: Unviersity of Georgia Press, 1974. "Heroic Quest: The Mood of Energy," 39-59.
      • Helsinger, Elizabeth.
      • Herbert, Karen. "Dissendent Language in The Defence of Guenevere." Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 313-27. 299-312.
      • Kirchhoff, Frederick. William Morris: The Construction of A Male Self, 1856-1872. Ohio University Press, 1990, 70-81.
      • Kirchhoff, Frederick. "'The Glory and Freshness of a Dream': Arthurian Romances as Reconstructed Childhood." Arthuriana Arthuriana 6.3 (1996), 3-13.
      • Mancoff, Debra N. "Problems with the Pattern: William Morris's Arthurian Imagery." Arthuriana 6.3 (1996), 55-68.
      • Sadoff, Diane. "Erotic Murders: Structural and Rhetorical Irony in William Morris' Froissart Poems," Victorian Poetry 13.3-4, 11-26.
      • Scott, Dixon. “The First Morris,” in Primitiae: Essays in English Literature. Liverpool: The University Press, 1912: 183-236
      • Shaw, W. David. "Arthurian Ghosts: The Phantom Art of 'The Defence of Guenevere.'" Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 299-312.
      • Spatt, Hartley. "William Morris and the Uses of the Past." Victorian Poetry 13.3-4 (1975): 1-9.
      • Struve, Laura. "The Public Life and Private Desires of Women in William Morris's 'Defence of Guenevere'." Arthuriana 6.3 (1996): 15-28.
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• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON
• Edition text
  • Argument
  • Content - Books I through XVII
• Kelmscott 1895 edition (flip-book)
• Huntington ms. (flip-book)
• Transcript ms. (text and folio images)
• 1867 edition images (flip-book)
• 1882 edition images (flip-book)
• Collations 1 through 17
• Supplementary materials
  • General introduction
  • Editions of Jason
  • Annotations
  • Index of places mentioned in the poem
  • Index of persons (mythological) mentioned in the poem
  • Maps
  • Sources for Morris's Argonauts
  • The Route of the Argonauts
  • Criticism of Jason Since 1900; bibliography (linked to criticism) and contemporary reviews
    • Kermode, Helen Sybil. "The Classical Sources of Morris's Life and Death of Jason." Primitiae: Essays in English Literature by Students of the University of Liverpool. Liverpool and London, 1912, 158-82.
    • Miles, Rosie. "Illustrating Morris: The Work of Jessie King and Maxwell Armfield."JWMS 15.4 (2004): 109-135.
• UNPUBLISHED TALES OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE<
  • "The Wanderers"
    • Text
    • Textual notes
    • Annotations
    • Manuscript
  • "The Story of Dorothea"
    • Introduction
    • Text
    • Notes on Variants
    • Notes on Poem
    • Text and Notes in standard page (PDF)
    • Manuscript
  • "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice"
    • Introduction
    • Text
    • Textual Notes
    • Annotations
    • Text and Variants in standard page-format (PDF file)
    • Manuscript
    • Illustrations
  • "The Story of Aristomenes"
    • Text
    • Textual Notes
    • Annotations
    • Illustrations
    • Supplementary Materials
    • Manuscript
  • "The Wooing of Swanhild"
    • Text
    • Textual Notes
    • Annotations
    • Illustrations
    • Manuscript
  • Supplementary Materials
    • British Lib. mss.
    • Critical responses
      • "The Wanderers"
        • Boos, Florence, "The Evolution of the Wanderers' Prologue," Papers on Language and Literature 20.4 (1984), 397-417.
        • Holzman, Michael, "The First Version of 'The Wanderers'," The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 3.1(1982): 91-104. (pdf)
      • "The Story of Dorothea"
        • Goodwin, K.L. “An Unpublished Tale from The Earthly Paradise.” Victorian Poetry, 13 (Fall- Winter 1975): 91-102.
        • Literal and Literary Texts: Morris' 'Story of Dorothea,'" Victorian Poetry 34.3 (Autumn 1996): 339-39.
      • "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice": "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice": An Omitted Earthly Paradise Tale," Florence Boos, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 4.1 (November, 1983): 58-86.
      • "The Wooing of Swanhild"
      • "The Story of Aristomenes"
    • Illustrations: Orpheus
• THE EARTHLY PARADISE
• Kelmscott edition
• 1890 edition
• 1868-70 first edition
• Editorial material
  • General Introduction, by Florence S. Boos
  • Introduction to "Apology"
  • Introduction to "Prologue: The Wanderers"
  • Introduction to "Atalanta's Race"
  • Introduction to "The Man Born to Be King"
  • Introduction to "The Doom of King Acrisius"
  • Introduction to "The Proud King"
  • Introduction to "The Story of Cupid and Psyche"
  • Introduction to "The Writing on the Image"
  • Introduction to "The Love of Alcestis"
  • Introduction to "The Lady of the Land"
  • Introduction to "The Son of Croesus"
  • Introduction to "The Watching of the Falcon"Introduction to "Pygmalion and the Image"
  • Introduction to "Ogier the Dane"
  • Introduction to "The Death of Paris"
  • Introduction to "The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon"
  • Introduction to "Acontius and Cydippe"
  • Introduction to "The Lovers of Gudrun"
  • Introduction to "The Story of Rhodope"
  • Introduction to "The Man Who Never Laughed Again"
  • Introduction to "The Golden Apples"
  • Introduction to "The Fostering of Aslaug"
  • Introduction to "Bellerophon at Argos"
  • Introduction to "The Ring Given to Venus"
  • Introduction to "Bellerophon in Lycia"
  • Introduction to "The Hill of Venus"
  Manuscripts of The Earthly Paradise

Supplementary materials
   Victorian Reviews

• Walter Pater, Westminster Review
• Alfred Austin, Temple Bar
• G. A. Simcox, Academy
• Spectator, unsigned
• Sidney Colvin, Academy
• G. W. Cox, Edinburgh Review
• Westminster Review, unsigned

More recent criticism

• Boos, Florence. "Sources for Morris's 'Wanderers' Prologue.'" American Notes and Queries 22.5-6 (1984): 73-78.
• Boos, Florence. "Ten Journeys to the Venusberg: Morris' Drafts for The Hill of Venus" Victorian Poetry, Vol. 39 (Winter,2001): 597-616.
• Calhoun, Blue. "Pastoral: The Mood of Idleness," 61-62 and "The Four Seasons of Man and Socoeity: The General Sructure and Volume I, " 117-128; "The Burning Days of Mid-summer Suns: Volume II," in The Pastoral Vision of William Morris. U Georgia: Athens, 1975, 146-77.
• Faulkner, Peter. "The Story of Alcestis in William Morris and Ted Hughes."JWMS 16.2/3(2005): 56-79.
• Goodwin, Kenneth. "Unpublished Lyrics of William Morris." Yearbook of English Studies 5(1975): 190-206.
• Hodgson, Amanda. "'The Highest Poetry': Epic Narrative in The Earthly Paradise and Idylls of the King," Victorian Poetry (1996): 341-54.
• Julian, Linda. "Laxdaela Saga and 'The Lovers of Gudrun': Morris' Poetic Vision." Victorian Poetry (1996): 355-71.
• Oberg, Charlotte, "The Role of the Hero," chapter II, A Pagan Prophet: William Morris, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
• ---------. "Conclusion." Ibid.   
• Silver, Carole. "The Earthly Paradise: Lost." Victorian Poetry 13.3-4 (1975): 27-42.
• Strode, Elizabeth. "The Crisis of The Earthly Paradise: Morris and Keats." Victorian Poetry 13.3-4 (1975): 71-81.

• Illustrations
• List of Drafts
• Sources
  • “The Mountain of Venus,” Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1866, 196-208.
  • “The Terrestrial Paradise,” Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London, Oxford and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1866, 229-241.
• Bibliography
• LOVE IS ENOUGH
  • Edition text
  • Kelmscott 1897
  • 1873 images
  • 1873 text
  • Huntington mss.
  • Supplementary materials
    • Boos, Florence. "Love Is Enough as Secular Theodicy." Papers in Language and Literature 24 (1988), 53-80.
    • Dunlap, Benjamin. "Bear Me Witness to Love: Morris's Love is Enough." Victorians Institute Journal 2 (1973), 3-21.
    • Herbert, Karen. "No 'Fourth Wall': The Experience of Drama in William Morris's Love is Enough," English Studies in Canada 17.3 (1991), 301-17.
    • Kirchhoff, Frederick. "Love is Enough: A Crisis in William Morris' Poetic Development." Victorian Poetry 15 (1977), 297-306.
    • Simcox, G. A. Review, Academy, December 1872, vol. 3, 461-62.
    • Wilson, John R. "William Morris's Love is Enough: A Parabolic Morality." Pre-Raphaelite Review 1 (1977), 16-26.
• SIGURD THE VOLSUNG
• Edition text, Bk. I
• Kelmscott 1898
• 1876 edition
• Book II
• Book III
• Book IV
• 1876 edition
• Manuscripts

Supplementary materials

• Contemporary reviews
  • Edmund Gosse, Academy, 9 December 1876, x, 557-58. [pdf]
  • Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum
    December 1876, no. 2563, 753-5 [pdf]
  • Unsigned, Atlantic Monthly, April 1877, xxxix, 501-4 [pdf
  • Unsigned, International Review, September 1877, iv, 696-9 [pdf
  • Unsigned, Literary World, February 1877, vii, 136-7 [pdf]
  • Unsigned, North American Review, March 1877, cxxiv, 323-5 [pdf]
  • Unsigned, Saturday Review, 20 January 1877, xliii, 81-2 [pdf]
• Later criticism
  • Balch, Dennis, "'The Lovers of Gudrun,' Sigurd the Volsung, and The House of the Wolfings: Three Chapters in a Tale of the Individual and the Tribe," After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung, Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania: William Morris Society in the United States, 1977. [pdf format]
  • Ennis, Jane, "The Role of Grimhild in Sigurd the Volsung,"JWMS 8.3 (Autumn 1989): 13-23.
  • Ennis, Jane, "Imagery of Gold in Sigurd the Volsung,"JWMS 11.4 (Spring 1996): 20-26.
  • Spatt, Hartley, "Morrissaga: Sigurd the Volsung," After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung, Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania: William Morris Society in the United States, 1977. [pdf format]
  • Tucker, Herbert, "All for the Tale: The Epic Macropoetics of Morris' Sigurd the Volsung," Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 373-394.
  • Ugolnik, Anthony. "The Victorian Skald: Old Icelandic and the Evolution of William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung," After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung, Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania: William Morris Society in the United States, 1977. [pdf format]
  • Silver, Carole, The Romance of William Morris, Ohio University Press, 1982, 111-119.
• Bibliography
• Illustrations
• Sources

• POEMS BY THE WAY
• Edition text 1891
• Kelmscott 1st edition
• Trade edition 1891
• HM6427, Images from Huntington Library Manuscript

Supplementary materials

Reviews and Criticism:

• Boos, Florence. "Narrative Design in The Pilgrims of Hope." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris, edited Florence Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
• de Vega, Sean. Introduction to "Los Peregrino de la Esperanza: A Bilingual English-Spanish Edition of William Morris' The Pilgrims of Hope." M. A. Thesis, University of Iowa, 2006. [pdf]
• Ellison, R. C. "An Unpublished Poem by William Morris." English 15(1964): 100-102.
• Elton, Oliver, review, Academy. February 1892, vol. 41, 197.
• Faulkner, Peter. "The Male as Lover, Fool and Hero: 'Goldilocks' and the Late Prose Romances." Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 413-24.
• Garnett, Richard, review, Illustrated London News, January 9th, 1892. [pdf]
• Goodwin, Kenneth. "The Summation of a Poetic Career: Poems by the Way," Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 397-410.
• Holzman, Michael, "Propaganda, Passion, and Literary Art in William Morris's The Pilgrims of Hope," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24.4 (Winter 1982), 372-93.
• Latham, David, ed. and intro. Poems by the Way, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.[.pdf]
• Salmon, Nicholas. "The Communist Poet-Laureate: William Morris's Chants for Socialists." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 31-40. [.pdf]
• Salmon, Nicholas. "The Serialisation of The Pilgrims of Hope." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 14-25. [.pdf]
• Waters, Chris. "Morris's Chants and the Problem of Socialist Culture." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris, edited Florence Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
• Poems in Periodicals
• LIST OF ALL POEMS AND MANUSCRIPTS
• Early poems
• Poems of the Earthly Paradise period
  • Attached files:
    • Images of the English Illustrated Magazine version
• Earthly Paradise drafts
• Poems Written After 1875
• Translations
• Poems in Prose Romances
• Manuscript Drafts and First Printed Versions of Individual Poems
PROSE (portal)
• EARLY PROSE ROMANCES
  • The Hollow Land and Other Tales from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
• The Story of the Unknown Church
• A Dream
• Frank's Sealed Letter
• Gertha's Lovers
• Svend and His Brethren
• Lindenborg Pool
• The Hollow Land
• Golden Wings
• The Novel on Blue Paper
• The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine 1856 (introduction and selections, Rossetti Archive)
• The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, text in pdf format
• essay, "Churches of North France: The Shadows of Amiens," The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, February 1856
• Review of Men and Women by Robert Browning, from The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, march 1856
• Review of "Death the Avenger and Death the Friend," The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, August 1856

  Supplementary materials: criticism

  • Baïssus, J. M. "Morris and the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine."JWMS 5.2 (Winter 1982): 2-13
  • Dewan, Pauline. "Patterns of Enclosure in Morris's Early Stories."JWMS 11.2 (Spring 1995): 9-11
  • Fletcher, Chris. "A Rediscovered and Partly Unpublished Morris Notebook."JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 12-20.
  • Noyes, Alfred. Introduction to Golden Wings and Other Stories, Van Nuys, California: Newcastle, 1976.
  • Timo, Helen. "A Church Without God: William Morris's A Night in a Cathedral."JWMS 4.2 (Summer 1980): 24-31.

Other Essays on the Early Writings:

• Boos, Florence S. "The Structure of Morris' Tales for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review 20 (1987), 2-12.
• Gordon, Walter K. "Pre-Raphaelitism and The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Journal of the Rutgers University Library 29(1966), 42-51.
• Hodgson, Amada. "The Early Romances," in The Romances of William Morris. Cambridge UP, 1987, 20-30.
• Hosman, Robert Stahr. "The Germ (1850) and The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)." Victorian Periodicals Newsletter 4 (April 1969), 36-47.
• Hosman, Robert Stahr. "The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." British Literary Magazines: The Victorian and Edwardian Age, ed. Alvin Sullivan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984, 294-302.
• Le Mire, Eugene D., ed. Introduction, The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
• A Dream of John Ball
• Text of A Dream of John Ball
• Kelmscott Press Edition 1892
  
• First Edition images London: Reeves and Turner, 1888
• Supplementary Material:
  • Headnote 
  • Criticism    
    • Boos, Florence. "History as Fellowship in Morris's Literary Writings." William Morris Today, 1981.
    • Boos, Florence. “Victorian Alternative Futures: ‘Historicism,’ Past and Present, and A Dream of John Ball,” in History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism, ed. Florence Boos. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1992, 3-37.
    • Hilton, Rodney. The Change Beyond the Change: A Dream of John Ball. William Morris Society, 1990.
    • Holzman, Michael. The Encouragement and Warning of History: William Morris's A Dream of John Ball. Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris, eds. Florence Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: U Missouri Press, 1990, 98-116.
• Kegel, Charles H. "William Morris's A Dream of John Ball: A Study in Reactionary Liberalism." Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters: 1954, 40, part 4 (1955), 303-312. (pdf)
• Kocmanova, Jessie. "Two Uses of the Dream-Form as a Means of Confronting the Present with the National Past: William Morris and Svatopluk Cech." Brno Studies in English 2 (1960), 113-48.
• Oberg, Charlotte. Chapter VII, "The Uses of History," A Pagan Prophet: William Morris. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
• Salmon, Nicholas. "The Revision of A Dream of John Ball." JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 15-17 [PDF].
• Salmon, Nicholas. "A Reassessment of A Dream of John Ball." JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 29-38 [PDF].
• Timo, Helen. "'A Not So Golden Age': The Genesis of Morris's A King's Lesson."JWMS 7.4 (Spring 1988): 16-18 [PDF].
• Boos, Florence. "History as Fellowship in Morris's Literary Writings." William Morris Today, 1981.
• The House of the Wolfings
  • Text of The House of the Wolfings
  • First Edition: The House of the Wolfings, London: Reeves and Turner, 1889

  Supplementary Materials: Criticism

• Salmon, Nicholas. "A Study in Victorian Historiography: William Morris's Germanic Romances." JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 59-89.
• Boos, Florence. “Morris’s German Romances as Socialist History,” Victorian Studies 27.3 (Spring, 1984):
  321-42.
• Hewlett, Henry, review, Nineteenth Century, August 1889, 26, 337-41.
• Mathews, Richard. "Introduction," A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and all the Kindreds of the Mark. North Hollywood, Calif.: Newcastle, 1978, 5-10.
• Oberg, Charlotte. "The Uses of History," in A Pagan Prophet: William Morris, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
• Unsigned review. Atlantic Monthly, June 1890, 65, 851-54.
• The Roots of the Mountains
  • Text of The Roots of the Mountains
  • The Roots of the Mountains, first edition London: Reeves and Turner, 1890 images
    
  • The Roots of the Mountains, manuscript
  Supplementary Materials
  • Hansen, Regina. "Forms of Friendship in The Roots of the Mountains." JWMS 11.3 (Autumn 1995): 19-21.
  • Boos, Florence. “Morris’s German Romances as Socialist History,” Victorian Studies 27.3 (Spring, 1984):
    321-42.
  • Mathews, Richard. "William Morris's Roots: History into Metaphor." Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens 16 (1982), 69-76.
  • Shippey, T. A. "'Goths and Huns: The Rediscovery of the Northern Cultures in the Nineteenth Century," in The Medieval Legacy: A Symposium, ed. Andreas Haarder, et al. Odense: Odense Unversity Press, 1982, 51-69.
• News from Nowhere
• Text of News from Nowhere
• News from Nowhere, Kelmscott Press Edition, 1892
• News from Nowhere, First edition, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890 images
• News from Nowhere, First British edition, London: Reeves and Turner, 1891 images

Supplementary Materials and Criticism

• An illustrated on-line edition of News from Nowhere

From the Journal of William Morris Studies:

• Baker, Lesley A. "An Old House Amongst New Folk." JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 24-27.
• Coleman, Roger. "Design and Technology in Nowhere." JWMS 9.2 (Spring 1991): 28-39.
• Delveaux, Martin. "From Pastoral Arcadia to Stable-State Mini-Cities: Morris's News from Nowhere and Callenbach's Ecotopia." JWMS 14.1 (Autumn 2000): 75-81.
• Ebbatson, J. R. "Visions of Wild England: William Morris and Richard Jefferies." JWMS 3.3 (Spring 1977): 12-29.
• Jacobs, Naomi. "Beauty and the Body in News from Nowhere." JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 26-30.
• Highfill, Jannett. "International Trade in News from Nowhere." JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 31-35.
• Faulkner, Peter. "News from Nowhere in Recent Criticism." JWMS 5.3 (Summer 1983): 2-7.
• Fellman, Michael. "Bloody Sunday and News from Nowhere." JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 9-18.
• Holm, Jan. "The Old Grumbler At Runnymede."JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 17-21.
• Macdonald, Alex. "The Revision of News from Nowhere." JWMS 3.2 (Summer 1976): 8-15.
• Macdonald, Alex. "The Liveliness of News from Nowhere: Structure, Language and Allusion." Alexander MacDonald, JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 22-26.
• Marsh, Jan. "News from Nowhere as Erotic Dream." JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 19-23.
• Mineo, Ady. "Eros Unbound: Sexual Identities in News from Nowhere." JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 8-14.
• Nichols, Ashton. "Liberationist Sexuality and Nonviolent Resistance: The Legacy of Blake and Shelley in Morris's News from Nowhere." Ashton Nichols, JWMS 10.4 (Spring 1994): 20-27.
• Pinkney, Tony. "Cycling in Nowhere."JWMS 13. 2 (Spring 1999): 28-33.
• Gilbert, Nathaniel. "The Landscape of Resistance in Morris's News from Nowhere."JWMS 16/23 (2005): 22-37.
• Morrs's Ethics, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation." Regenia Gagnier, JWMS 16/23 (2005): 9-30.
• "Kinetic Utopias: H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia and William Morris's News from Nowhere." Tony Pinkney, JWMS 16/23 (2005): 49-55.
• David Latham. "Hope and Change: Teaching News from Nowhere." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 6-23.
• Vervaecke, Philippe. "Teaching News from Nowhere in France for the CAPES and the Agrégationin English Studies, 2004-2006." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 24-40.
• Maloney, Kathleen. "Studying the Past, Envisioning the Future: Teaching History via William Morris's News from Nowhere." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 41-53.
• Miles, Rosie. "Teaching Morris Online."JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 54-72.
• Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "Collections and Collectivity: William Morris in the Rare Book Room." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 73-88.
• McKinstry, Susan Jaret. "Taking Our Eyes Out of Our Pockets: Teaching William Morris's Ideal Book." JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 89-98.

Other Articles:

• Boos, Florence S. "An (Almost) Egalitarian Sage: William Morris and Nineteenth-Century Socialist-Feminism." Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Regnegotiating Gender and Power, ed. Thais E. Morgan, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
• Boos, Florence S. "The Ideal of Everyday Life in William Morris' News from Nowhere." The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910. (DQR Studies in Literature, vol. 46, 2010): 141-170.
• Boos, Florence S. "News From Nowhere and 'Garden Cities': Morris's Utopia and Nineteenth-Century Town-Design." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies n. s. 7.2 (Fall 1998): 5-27.
• Boos, Florence S. and William Boos. "News from Nowhere and Victorian Socialist Feminism." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 14.1 (1990): 3-32.
• Boos, Florence and William Boos. "Orwell's Morris and 'Old Major's' Dream," English Studies 71.4 (1990), 361-71.
• Boos, Florence S. "Personal and Political Lieux d'Anticipation in News from Nowhere." William Morris, News from Nowhere, Ouvrage Collectif Coordonné par Béatrice Laurent (Editions du Temps: Nantes, 2004): 93-107.
• Boos, Florence and William. "The Utopian Communism of William Morris." History of Political Thought 7.3 (1986): 489-510.
• Carré, Jacques. "Architecture, Utopia and History in Morris's Thought [PDF]." Morris Day
  8 January 2005, Université Paris 13, Jacques Carré (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
• Donaldson, Laura. "Boffin in Paradise, or the Artistry of Reversal in News from Nowhere." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 26-60.
• Holzman, Michael. "Anarchism and Utopia: William Morris's News from Nowhere." ELH, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 589-603
• Johnson, Lionel. Review, Academy, 23 May, 1891, xxxix, 483-84.
• Kelvin, Norman, "The Erotic in News from Nowhere and The Well at World's End." Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975. New York: William Morris Society (1976).
• Lloyd, Trevor. "The Politics of William Morris's News from Nowhere." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 273-28
• MacDonald, Alexander. "Bellamy, Morris, and the Great Victorian Debate." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 74-87.
• Marsh, Jan. "Concerning Love: News From Nowhere and Gender." William Morris & News from Nowhere: A Vision for Our Time. Eds. Stephen Coleman and Paddy O'Sullivan. (Bideford, Devon: Green Books, 1990): 107-125.
• Sargent, Lyman Tower. "William Morris and the Anarchist Tradition." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 61-73.
• Talbot, Norman. "A Guest in the Future: News from Nowhere." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Eds. Florence S. Boos and Carole G. Silver. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990): 38-60.
• Trouvé-Finding, Susan. "Real and Imaginary Topography in News from Nowhere [PDF]." Morris Day, 8 January 2005, Université Paris 13, Susan Trouvé-Finding, Université de Poitiers
• Watkinson, Ray. "The Obstinate Refusers: Work in News From Nowhere." William Morris & News from Nowhere: A Vision for Our Time. Eds. Stephen Coleman and Paddy O’Sullivan. (Bideford, Devon: Green Books, 1990): 91-106.

LATE ROMANCES

• The Story of the Glittering Plain
  • Text of The Story of the Glittering Plain
  • Kelmscott Press Edition 1891
  • The Story of the Glittering Plain, first edition London: Reeves and Turner, 1891
  • The Story of the Glittering Plain, English Illustrated Magazine 1890 Supplementary Material: Criticism
    • Dewan, Pauline. "Circular Designs in Morris's The Story of the Glittering Plain." JWMS 12.4 (Spring 1998): 15-20.
    • Oberg, Charlotte. Chapter VII, "The Quester Triumphant: Man and Earth Made New," in A Pagan Prophet: William Morris, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
    • Talbot, Norman. "The First Modern 'Secondary World' Fantasy: Morris's Craftsmanship in The Story of The Glittering Plain." JWMS 13. 2 (Spring 1999): 3-11.
    • Talbot, Norman, ed. and intro. The Story of the Glittering Plain and Child Christopher. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
    • Valentine, K. B. "Motifs from Nature in the Design Work and Prose Romances of William Morris (1876-1896)," Victorian Poetry 13.3-4 (1975): 83-89.
• The Wood Beyond the World
  • Text of The Wood Beyond the World The Wood Beyond the World, Kelmscott Press Edition 1894
  • The Wood Beyond the World, London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895

    Supplementary Materials:

    • Introduction by Kathleen O'Neill Sims
    • Notes by Kathleen O'Neill Sims
    • Criticism
      • Calhoun, B., & Modern Language Association of America. Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975,New York: William Morris Society (1976).
      • Cooper, Jane S. "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances." JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
      • Dodds, Andrew. "A Structural Approach to The Wood Beyond the World."JWMS 7.2 (Spring 1987): 26-28.
      • Faulkner, Peter. "The Male as Lover, Fool and Hero: 'Goldilocks' and the Late Prose Romances." Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 413-24.
      • Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances." JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
      • "The Influence of De La Motte Fouqué's Sintram and His Companions on William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World." Hilary Newman, 47-53.
      • Medleson, Michael. "Opening Moves: The Entry into the Other World," Extrapolation 25 (1984), 171-79.
      • Shippey, Tom. Introduction, The Wood Beyond the World. Oxford: OUP, 1980, v-xix.
      • Watts, Theodore. Unsigned review. Athenaeum, 2 March 1895, no. 3514, 273-74.

• The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Text of The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Kelmscott Press Edition 1897 images
  • The Water of the Wondrous Isles, First trade edition, London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1897
  • The Widow's House by the Great Water (early draft), edited by Helen A. Timo

    Supplementary Materials, Criticism

  • Bennett, Phillippa. "Rediscovering the Topography of Wonder: Morris, Iceland, and the Late Romances."JWMS 16/23 (2005): 38-48.
  • Boos, Florence. “The Socialist New Woman in William Morris’s The Water of the Wondrous Isles,” Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 23(1995): 159-75.
  • Boos, Florence. “Gender Division and Political Allegory in The Last Romances of William Morris.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies I.2 (1992): 12-23.
  • Calhoun, B., & Modern Language Association of America. Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975,New York: William Morris Society (1976).
  • Cooper, Jane S. "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances."JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
  • Gopen, George D. "The Music of the Mind: Structure and Substance in William Morris's The Water of the Wondrous Isles."JWMS 16.2/3 (2005), 92-102.
  • Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances." JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
  • Talbot, Norman, "'Whilom, as tells the tale': The Language of the Prose Romances." JWMS 8 (1989): 16-25.
  • Silver, Carole. "Socialism Internalized: The Last Romances of William Morris." Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris, edited Florence Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia,
    Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1990.
  • Spatt, Hartley. "William Morris's Late Romances: The Struggle Against Closure." History and Community: Essays in Victorian Medievalism. Garland Publishing, Inc.: New York & London, 1992, 109-135.
  • Talbot, Norman, ed. and intro. The Water of the Wondrous Isles. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.
  • Watts, Theodore. Unsigned review. Athenaeum, December 1897, no. 3658, 777-79.
• The Well at the World's End
  • Text of The Well at the World's End
  • The Well at the World's End, Kelmscott edition 1896 images
  • The Well at the World's End, 2 vols. London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, 1896.
  Supplementary Material: Criticism
  • Calhoun, B., & Modern Language Association of America. Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975,New York: William Morris Society (1976).
  • Cooper, Jane S. "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances." JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
  • Birch, Dinah. "Morris and Myth: A Romantic Heritage."JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 5-11.
  • Boos, Florence. “Gender Division and Political Allegory in The Last Romances of William Morris.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies I.2 (1992): 12-23.
  • Hodgson, Amanda. "The Last Romances," The Romances of William Morris, Cambridge University Press, 1987, 164-69; also186-197.
  • Kelvin, Norman, "The Erotic in News from Nowhere and The Well at World's End." Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975. New York: William Morris Society (1976).
  • Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances."JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
  • Swinburne, A. C., review, Nineteenth Century, November 1896, xl, 759-60.
  • Wells, H. G., review, Saturday Review, 17 October 1896, lxxxii, 413-15.
  • Yeats, W. B., review, Bookman, November 1896, x, 37-38.
• The Sundering Flood
  • Text of The Sundering Flood
  • The Sundering Flood, Kelmscott Edition 1898 images
  • The Sundering Flood, first trade edition, London: New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898 images
  Supplementary Material
  • Boos, Florence. “Gender Division and Political Allegory in The Last Romances of William Morris.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies I.2 (1992): 12-23.
  • Calhoun, B., & Modern Language Association of America. Studies in the late romances of William Morris: Papers presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975,New York: William Morris Society (1976).
  • "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances." Jane S. Cooper, JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
  • 'An Icelandic Tale Re-Told': William Morris's Sundering Flood." Helen A. Timo, JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 12-16.
  • Morris and Traditional Storytelling." John Purkis, JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 16-18.

JOURNALS/ESSAYS

• Icelandic Journals
  • 1871 Journey to Iceland
    • Published version, Collected Works of William Morris, vol. 8, 1911
      (pdf images)
    • Images, Morris's handwritten diaries, slightly different from the published version (British Library Manuscripts)
    • Notes for 1871 Journals, arranged by date of entry
  • 1873 Journey to Iceland
    • Images, Icelandic Journal for 1873, Collected Works, vol. 8, 1911 (pdf images)
      (pdf images)
  • Other Supplementary Materials:
    • Headnote
    • lllustrations
    • Maps
    • List of Persons Mentioned
    • List of Places Mentioned
    • Critical Articles
      • Aho, Gary. "Following in the Footsteps of William Morris." Atlantica and Iceland Review 20 (Winter 1982), 84-93.
      • Aho, Gary. "William Morris and Iceland." Kairos 1, no. 2(1982), 102-33.
      • Aho, Gary. “`Međ Island á heilanum’: Islandsbæekur breskra ferđalanga 1772 til 1897,” Skírnir, 167 (1993), 205-258.
        English version: "Iceland on the Brain: British Travellers to Iceland from 1172 to 1897."
      • Aho, Gary, Intro. Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
      • Bartels, Dennis. "William Morris and Iceland's Hydrogen Economy."JWMS 15.3 (2003): 34-35.
      • Cooper, Jane S. "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances." JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
      • Preston, Peter. "'The North Begins Inside': Morris and Trollope in Iceland."JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 8-28.
      • Wiens, Pamela Bracken. "Fire and Ice: Clashing Visions of Iceland in the Travel Narratives of Morris and Burton." JWMS 11.4 (Spring 1996): 12-18.
      • Wawn, Andrew. "William Morris and the Translation of Iceland," in Shirley Chew and Alistair Stead (eds), Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999), 253-76.
    • Icelandic Translation
•  Gothic Architecture
  • Images of the Kelmscott Press Edition 1893
  • Text (1889)
  • Images, British Library Manuscript
  • Transcription, B. L. Add. MS. 45,332(9)
  • Headnote
TRANSLATIONS (portal)

POETRY

• The Ordination of Knighthood
  • Edition text
  • Ellis note
  • Kelmscott 1892-93 images
  • Huntington mss. images
  • Supplementary materials
    • Headnote
    • Variants
    • Criticism
• The Aeneid
  • Text, The Aeneids of Virgil
  • The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English. London: Ellis and White, 1876
• The Odyssey
• Text, The Odyssey
• The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse. 2 vols. London: Reeves & Turner, 1887.
• Supplementary Materials:
  • Morshead, E. D. A., two reviews, Academy, April 1887, xxxi, 299 and March 1888, xxxiii, 143-4. [pdf]
  • Wilde, Oscar, unsigned reviews, Pall Mall Magazine, 26 April 1887, xlv, 5 and 24 November 1888, xlvi, 3. [pdf]

Beowulf

• The Tale of Beowulf Done Out of the Old English Tongue. Trans. By William Morris and A. J. Wyatt. Kelmscott Press, 1895, Images.
• The Tale of Beowulf, Images, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898.
• Text, The Tale of Beowulf, Collected Works of William Morris, vol. X, London: Longmans, 1911.
• Supplementary Materials:
  • Headnote
  • Criticism
    • Tilling, P. M., "William Morris' Translation of Beowulf: Studies in His Vocabulary." Studies in English Literature and Early Literature in Honor of Paul Christophersen. Ed. P. M. Tilling. New University of Ulster, 1981, 163-75.

PROSE

• The Story of Grettir the Strong
  • Text, "The Story of Grettir the Strong." Translated from the Icelandic by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnusson.
  • First Edition. Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong. Translated from the Icelandic by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnusson. London: F. S. Ellis, 1869.

• Volsunga Saga
  • Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with certain Songs from the Elder Edda. Translated by Eiríkir Magnusson and William Morris. London: Ellis, 1870.
  • Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with certain Songs from the Elder Edda. Translated by Eiríkir Magnusson and William Morris. London: Ellis, 1870.
• Three Northern Love Stories
  • Three Northern Love Stories, Text, Translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson. London Ellis and White, 1875. Contains The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald; The Story of Frithiof the Bold; The Story of Viglund the Fair; The Tale of Hogni and Hedinn; The Tale of Roi the Fool; The Tale of Thorstein Staff-Smitten.
  • Three Northen Love Tales. Ellis and White, 1875.
    Background and Criticism
    • Aho, Gary, Intro. Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
• Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile

• Text, "Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile"
• Kelmscott Press Edition, 1894.
• Supplementary Materials: Reviews and Criticism
  • Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896, 62, 88-89.
• The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane
  • Text, "The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane"
  • Kelmscott Press, London, 1893.
  • Supplementary Materials: Reviews and Criticism
    • Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896, 62, 88-89.
• The Story of King Coustans and of Over Sea
  • Text, "The Story of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea"
  • Kelmscott Edition, London, 1894.
  • Supplementary Materials: Reviews and Criticism
    • Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896, 62, 88-89.
• Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
  • Edition text
  • Kelmscott Edition Vol. I images
  • Kelmscott Edition Vol. II images
  • Draft, Huntington Library Manuscript HM6419
  • Supplementary materials
    • Mathews, Richard. Introduction, Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. North Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Company, 1977.
    • Talbot, Norman, ed. and intro. The Story of the Glittering Plain and Child Christopher. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.

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