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Victorian ReviewsMore recent criticism
- 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
- 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 "Unpublished Lyrics of William Morris."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.
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]
- Boos, Florence. “'The Banners of the Spring to Be’: The Dialectical Pattern of Morris’s Later Poetry.” English Studies 81 (2000): 1-27.
- 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
Supplementary materials
Supplementary materials: criticism
Other Essays on the Early Writings:
From the Journal of William Morris Studies:
Other Articles:
- 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.
Supplementary Materials, Criticism
POETRYPROSE
- The Ordination of Knighthood
- 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:
- 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.
- British Library MS. Add. 45,318
- Supplementary Materials:
- 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.
- Supplementary Materials:
- 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]
- 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- Egil's Saga
- Calligraphic Manuscript, Society of Antiquaries, M. S. 907
- Supplementary Materials
- Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
- Text, "Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile"
- Kelmscott Press Edition, 1894.
- Supplementary Materials: Reviews and Criticism
- The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane
- The Story of King Coustans and of Over Sea
- Lancelot of the Lake
- Unpublished manuscript, translated by William Morris, c.1870-73
- Unfinished Calligraphic Manuscript Society of Antiquaries MS 905.4 Vol. 1
- Calligraphic Manuscript Society of Antiquaries MS 905.3
- The King's Son and The Carl's Son Society of Antiquaries Early Draft Manuscript 908
- Supplementary Materials
- 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.
- Talbot, Norman, "But were he king, or kinges eyr. . . : Morris's re-telling of Havelok" 10.4 JWMS (Spring 1994).
- The Tale of Haldor
- Unfinished Calligraphic Manuscript
- Supplementary materials
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