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Supplementary Materials on The Earthly Paradise

CRITICISM

Follow this link for Victorian reviews and criticism, more recent criticism is also included here.

ILLUSTRATIONS & DRAWINGS

Woodblocks prepared by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones for a projected edition of The Earthly Paradise: "Cupid and Psyche." Images courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, London.

Stamping Tools. Images courtesy of the Society of Antiquaries, London.

Hill of Venus, Designs for Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Images courtesy of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.

List of Drawings Held in the Fitzwilliam Museum

Periodical Publication:"The Death of Paris," Every Saturday 8 (13 November 1869), 625-30.

The Book that Never Was, Designs for an Illustrated Earthly Paradise 

TRANSLATIONS

William Morris, selected poems from The Earthly Paradise: “The Son of Crœsus”, “The Proud King,” “Atalanta’s Race,” and “The Man Born to be King,” Dutch – “De Zoon Van Croesus,” “De Trotse Koning,” “De Wedloop Van Atalante,” en “De Man Geboren Om Koning Te Zun.” Translated by K. A. Borren. The Hague: N.V. Servire, 1931.

William Morris, "The Story of Cupid and Psyche," Spanish translation. ["La historia de Cupido y Psique."] Translated by Hope de Vega, 2023.

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