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- William Morris Society
- Historical Article
- Miles, Rosie. "Virtual Paradise: Editing William Morris for the Twenty-First Century," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 231-55.
- Images of William Morris
BOOK ARTS
The Kelmscott Press
- Introduction
- Celebrating Kelmscott Press Day
- Poems by the Way, Proofing Sheets
- Proofing Sheets, UI Announcement
- Stamping Tools
- Woodblocks
- Initials, Colophon, and Borders
- Typefaces
- Golden Type, a Roman typeface c. 1890-91:
- Troy Type, a Gothic typeface c. 1892:
- Kelmscott Chaucer Type, a Gothic typeface c. 1892:
- Recovery of the Doves Type
- Kelmscott Press Books on this Archive
- Poetry
- The Defence of Guenevere 1892
- The Life and Death of Jason 1895
- The Earthly Paradise 1896-97
- Love Is Enough 1897
- Sigurd the Volsung 1898
- Poems by the Way 1891
- Prose
- Translations
- Poetry
- Bibliography
- Boos, Florence. "The Critique of the Empty Page: Kelmscott Press and William Morris's Theories of Book Design." William Morris and Everday Life, ed. Wendy Parkins, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2010, 65-85.
- Braesel, Michaela. "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris." JWMS 15.4 (Summer 2004): 41-54.
- Buxton Forman, H., The Books of William Morris Described. London: Frank Hollings, 1897 [reprinted 1976]. Formerly the standard bibliography of Morris's books despite the inclusion of forgeries and piracies perpetrated by the author and his friend Thomas J. Wise; for the current standard bibliography, see Eugene LeMire, A Bibliography of William Morris.
- Cockerell, Sydney C., "History of the Kelmscott Press" and "An Annotated List of the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press," in William Morris, A Note on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. [Kelmscott Press, 1898].
- Coupe, Robert L. M., Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. Second edition, 2011.
- Cowan, Yuri. "Collaboration, Translation, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press." To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss: William Morris and the Embodiment of Dreams, Mc-Gill-Queens University Press, 2014, 316-63.
- Dunlap, Joseph R., The Book That Never Was. New York, 1971. Account of the projected illustrated edition of Morris's The Earthly Paradise, which partially came to fruition a century later in the Rampant Lion Press version of The Story of Cupid and Psyche produced in 1974.
- Dunlap, Joseph R. "Morris and the Book Arts Before the Kelmscott Press." Victorian Poetry 13.3 and 4 (1975), 141-157.
- Faulkner, Peter. "The Kelmscott Chaucer and the Golden Cockerel Canterbury Tales," JWMS 19.1 (Winter 2010), 66-88.
- Frankel, Nicholas. "William Morris and the 'Moral Qualities' of Ornament," Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes (Canada), 13.1 (Spring 2018), 23-35.
- LeMire, Eugene D. A Bibliography of William Morris, London: British Library; Newark, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.
- Life, Alan, "Illustration of Morris's 'Ideal Book,'" and Joseph R. Dunlap, "Morris and the Book Arts Before the Kelmscott Press," Victorian Poetry (1975). This was a special issue of the journal devoted to Morris, illustrated.
- Marsh, Jan. "Books in Bottles? William Morris and the Demise of Printing," JWMS 20.2 (Summer 2013).
- Peterson, William S., A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press. Oxford UP, 1984. Definitive, detailed information on the Kelmscott Press: includes provenance information and notes on particular copies and related materials.
- The Kelmscott Press Golden Legend: A Documentary History of its Production, Together with a Leaf from the Kelmscott Edition, ed. William S. Peterson. [College Park], 1990. Leaf book with introduction and facsimiles of related documents.
- Peterson, William S., The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Oxford UP, 1991. By far the best book on the subject, offering not only a detailed history of the Press but an analysis of Morris's aesthetic seen in the context of Victorian printing. An essential work, superseding almost everything else written on the subject.
- Samuels Lasner, Mark, William Morris: The Collector as Creator. New York: Grolier Club, 1996. Checklist of the exhibition held at the Grolier Club, 1996-97, listing books owned and read by Morris and examples of Morris's own works in literature, politics, and the book arts.
- Sparling, Henry Halliday, The Kelmscott Press and William Morris, Master Craftsman. London, 1924. Earlier history of the Kelmscott Press, incorporating Cockerell's checklist. Now superseded by Peterson's History.
- The Typographical Adventure of William Morris. [London: William Morris Society, 1957]. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the William Morris Society in 1957. Places Morris's work in context of other printers and designers from 1850 to 1940.
- William Morris And the Art of the Book, ed. Charles Ryskamp. New York: Oxford UP, 1976. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1976. With essays: "William Morris: Book Collector" by Paul Needham; "William Morris: Calligrapher" by Joseph Dunlap; and "William Morris: Typographer" by John Dreyfus. Detailed and illustrated, an essential source.
- Thompson, Susan Otis, American Book Design and William Morris. New York, 1977; reprinted Newark, DE, 1996. Pioneering study of the influence of Morris's Kelmscott Press on American publishers and printers.
- Walsdorf, John, William Morris in Private Press And Limited Editions. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1983. Useful bibliographical catalogue of books by and about Morris issued 1890-1982 in limited or fine editions.
The Book that Never Was: Designs for an Illustrated Earthly Paradise
- Dunlap, Joseph R., The Book that Never Was, New York: Oriole Editions, 1971.
- Illustrations, Designs from the Birmingham Art Galler, "The Hill of Venus"
- Woodblocks, prepared by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones for a projected edition of The Earthly Paradise: "Cupid and Psyche."
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Calligraphy
- Introduction
- Calligraphic Manuscripts
- Aeneid, calligraphic trial, Society of Antiquaries, Book I, lines 34-89, f. 1 and verso
- Lancelot of the Lake, MS 905.4, Vol. I, ff. 1-76
- Lancelot of the Lake, MS 905.3, Vol. II, ff. 1-307
- The Tale of Haldor, the Son of Snorri the Priest, unfinished calligraphic manuscript, Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
- Egil's Saga, Society of Antiquaries Soc. of A. MS. 907, 1873-74
- The Story of Halfdan the Black, Morgan Library MA 3471
- The Story of King Harald, Morgan Library MA 3471
- Odes of Horace, Bodleian Library, Oxford
- Odes of Horace, Cheltenham Library, Song 12
- Image from The Rubaiyat (1872)
- The Rubaiyat, Bodleian Library, Oxford
- The Rubaiyat, Cheltenham Library
- The Story of the Men of Weaponfirth, Cheltenham Library
- Virgil, 2 ff. Latin text
- The Story of the Ynglings, variants, Society of Antiquaries Soc. of A. MS. 906, with marginal drawings by Philip Webb and C. F. Murray
- Supplementary Materials
- A Book of Verse
- Catalogue of Morris's Books
- Illustrations for the Aeneid by Edward Burne-Jones, Morgan Library
- Illuminated Page
- Braesel, Michaela. "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris." JWMS 15.4 (Summer 2004): 41-54.
- Braesel, Michaela. "William Morris and 'Authenticity.'" Reading Matters Vol. 15, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres. [Discusses his early calligraphic designs, including "The Story of the Iron Man" from the Grimm Brothers]
- Goodwin, K.L. A Preliminary Handlist of Manuscripts and Documents of William Morris. Provides locations for Morris manuscripts.
- Whitla, William. "'Sympathetic Translation' and the 'Scribe's Capacity': Morris's Calligraphy and the Icelandic Sagas." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 10 (Fall 2001): 27-108. See Appendix A: "William Morris's Calligraphic Manuscripts," 80-95 for a list of locations and features of these manuscripts.
Morris's Library
- Catalogue of Morris's Books
- Catalogue of Morris's Books, Transcription
- Sale Catalogue of Morris's Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, 1898
- "The Library of William Morris," William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson; more than 2000 titles to be listed, many not included in the 1898 Sotheby auction catalogue.
Edward Burne-Jones Illustrations
- Woodcuts for The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ("The Knight's Tale" and others)
- Woodcuts for The Life and Death of Jason
- Woodcuts for Other Subjects (including an illustrated Bible)
Poems Printed in Periodicals
- Title page of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, January 1, 1856, Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, see "Early Poems" and "Early Romances."
- The God of the Poor," Fortnightly Review 4, n. s., (1 August 1868), 139-45. ("There was a lord that hight Maltete,") Published in Poems by the Way.
- "The Two Sides of the River," Fortnightly Review 4, n. s. (October 1868), 379-82. ("O winter, o white winter, wert thou gone"). Published in Poems by the Way
- "Hapless Love," Good Words 10 (1 April 1869), 264-65. ("Why do you sadly go alone")
- "On the Edge of the Wilderness," Fortnightly Review 5 n. s. (April 1869), 391-94. (Whence comest thou, and where goest thou?"). Published in Poems by the Way.
- "The Death of Paris," Every Saturday 8 (13 November 1869), 625-30.
- “Rhyme Slayeth Shame” ( If as I come unto her she might hear, / If words might reach her when away I go, ), Atlantic Monthly, 25/198, February 1870, 144.
- "May Grown A-Cold," Atlantic Monthly 25/151 (1 May, 1870), 553.
- "Dark Wood," Fortnightly Review, February 1871, 219-20. ("Upon an eve I sat me down and wept") Included in the 1870 "A Book of Verse"; published in Poems by the Way as "Error and Loss," CW, 9, 108.
- "The Seasons," The Academy (1 February 1871), 109.
- "The King of Denmark's Sons," Scribner's Monthly 5.3 (January 1873), 294-97. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "Love's Gleaning Tide," Athenaeum, no. 2424 (11 April 1874), 492. ("Draw not away thy hands, my love,") Published in Poems by the Way.
- "The First Foray of Aristomenes," Athenaeum, no. 2533 (13 May 1876), 663-64. ("On toiled the sons of the exiles up the steep,")
- "The Three Seekers," To-Day 1.1 n. s. (January 1884), 25-29. ("There met three knights on the woodland way,") Published inPoems by the Way.
- "The Hall and the Wood," English Illustrated Magazine (February 1890), 351-54. ("'Twas in the water-dwindling tide") Published in Poems by the Way.
- “Meeting in Winter” (Winter in the world it is / Round about the unhoped kiss), a song from "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice," The English Illustrated Magazine, March 1884, 339-40. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "The Voice of Toil," Justice 1.12 (5 April 1884), 5. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "All for the Cause," Justice 1.14 (19 April 1884), 5. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "No Master," Justice, 1.21 (7 June 1884), 5.
- "The March of the Workers," Commonweal 1.1 (February 1885), 4; 1.2 (March 1885).
- "The Message of the March Wind," Commonweal, March 1885 1.2. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "Untitled Verse," Commonweal 4.119 (21 April 1888). ("Lo when we wade the tangled wood")
- "The Burghers' Battle," The Athenaeum (16 June 1888), 761. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "May Day," Justice, 30 April 1892. ("O Earth, once again cometh Spring to deliver")
- "Mine and Thine," Commonweal 5.164 (2 November 1889), 67. Published in Poems by the Way.
- "The Day of Days," The Humane Review, July 1890; Time, November 1890. Reprinted in Poems by the Way.
- "The New Year," The Artist 13 (January 1892), 3.
- "May Day, 1894," Justice 11.538 (5 May 1894), 1.
- "The Days That Were," Eclectic Magazine 68.6, n. s. (December 1898), 785. (poem used as an epigraph for The House of the Wolfings)
Prose Printed in Periodicals
- The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
- The Story of the Unknown Church January 1856, 28-33
- A Dream March 1856, 146-155
- Frank's Sealed Letter April 1856, 225-234
- Gertha's Lovers July 1856, 403-417; August 1856, 499-512
- Svend and His Brethren August 1856, 488-499
- Lindenborg Pool September 1856, 530-534
- The Hollow Land September 1856, 565-577; October 1856, 632-41
- Golden Wings December 1856, 733-742
- Introduction and Selections, Rossetti Archive) [Type Oxford and Cambridge Magazine into search engine; background information on each issue is provided by P. C. Fleming.]
- Table of Contents: Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, copy marked by Vernon Lushington (courtesy of David Taylor)
- Essay, "Churches of North France: The Shadows of Amiens," The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, February 1856, 99-110.
- Review of Men and Women, by Robert Browning, from The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, March 1856, 162-172.
- Review of "Death the Avenger" and "Death the Friend," The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, August 1856, 477-479.
- Commonweal: 'The Official Organ of the Socialist League'
- 1885, Vol. I
- Number 1, February, Introductory
- Number 1, February, The Manifesto of the Socialist League (William Morris and Provisional Council)
- Number 1, February, The March of the Workers
- Number 2, March, The Message of the March Wind
- Number 3, April, The Worker's Share of Art
- Number 3, April, The Pilgrims of Hope - II
- Number 3, April, [Untitled - Review of 'The Anarchist']
- Number 3, April, [Untitled - Review of 'Socialist Rhymes' by J.L. Joynes]
- Number 4, May, The Pilgrims of Hope - III
- Number 4, May, [Untitled contribution to 'Sign of the Times']
- Number 4, May, [Untitled review of 'Social Politics' by Charles Rowley]
- Number 4, May, Unattractive Labour
- Number 5, June, The Pilgrims of Hope - IV
- Number 5, June, Attractive Labour
- Number 5, June, [Untitled Paragraphs]
- Number 6, July, Notes on the Political Crisis
- Number 6, July, Socialists at Play
- Number 6, July, Socialism and Politics
- Number 7, August, First General Meeting of the Socialist League
- Number 7, August, Report of the Editors of the 'Commonweal' (with Edward Aveling)
- Number 7, August, Signs of the Times
- Number 7, August, The Pilgrims of Hope - V
- Number 8, September, Mr. Chamberlain at Hull
- Number 8, September, The Pilgrims of Hope - VI
- Number 8, September, Appeal! (with Belfort Bax and C. Theodor)
- Number 8, September, A New Party
- Number 9, October, Answers to Previous Enquiries
- Number 9, October, Ireland to Italy: A Warning
- Number 9, October, Signs of the Times
- Number 9, October, Inquiry Column Answers
- Number 10, November, The Pilgrims of Hope - VII
- Number 10, November, Free Speech and the Police
- Number 11, December, On the Eve of the Elections
- Number 11, December, To Our Readers (with Edward Aveling)
- 1886, Vol. II
- Number 12, January, The Morrow of the Elections
- Number 12, January, Notes
- Number 12, January, The Pilgrims of Hope - VIII
- Number 12, January, The Husks that the Swine Do Eat
- Number 12, January, The Commonweal (with Belfort Bax, H.H. Sparling, Carl Theodor)
- Number 13, February, Notes
- Number 13, February, A Letter from the Pacific Coast
- Number 13, February, The Commonweal (with Belfort Bax, H.H. Sparling, Carl Theodor)
- Number 14, March, Our Policy
- Number 14, March, The Pilgrims of Hope - IX
- Number 15, April, Notes on Matters Parliamentary
- Number 15, April, The Pilgrims of Hope - X
- Number 15, April, Socialism in the Provinces
- Number 16, 1 May, Editorial (with Belfort Bax)
- Number 16, 1 May, Independent Ireland
- Number 16, 1 May, [Untitled Paragraph on 'The Socialist Trial']
- Number 16, 1 May, [Untitled Paragraph on 'The Pit-Brow Women'], related [Autograph Manuscript]
- Number 16, 1 May, Concerning The 'Commonweal'
- Number 16, 1 May, [Untitled Paragraph on Mr. Chamberlain and Ireland], related [Autograph Manuscript]
- Number 17, 8 May, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 17, 8 May, Socialism in Dublin and Yorkshire
- Number 17, 8 May, The Pilgrims of Hope - XI
- Number 17, 8 May, [Untitled Paragraph on Railway Monopoly]
- Number 18, 15 May, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 18, 15 May, Foot-note to 'The Commercial Hearth'
- Number 18, 15 May, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter I (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 19, 22 May, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 19, 22 May, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter II (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 20, 29 May, Our Representatives
- Number 20, 29 May, [Various Untitled Notes]
- Number 20, 29 May, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter III (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 20, 29 May, Notes and Queries - Practical Socialism
- Number 20, 29 May, Branch Reports, Birmingham
- Number 21, 5 June, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 21, 5 June, The Pilgrims of Hope - XII
- Number 21, 5 June, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter IV (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 21, 5 June, Instructive Items
- Number 22, 12 June, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 22, 12 June, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter V (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 22, 12 June, Correspondence
- Number 22, 12 June, Free Speech at Stratford
- Number 23, 19 June, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 24, 26 June, Whigs, Democrats, and Socialists
- Number 24, 26 June, Home Rule or Humbug
- Number 25, 3 July, A Letter from Scotland
- Number 25, 3 July, Whigs, Democrats, and Socialists (cont.)
- Number 25, 3 July, The Pilgrims of Hope - XIII
- Number 25, 3 July, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter VI (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 26, 10 July, Notes on the Elections
- Number 26, 10 July, The Sequel of the Scotch Letter
- Number 26, 10 July, Notes
- Number 26, 10 July, Review: 'Modern Socialism'
- Number 27, 17 July, The Whig-Jingo Victory
- Number 27, 17 July, An Empty Pocket is the Worst of Crimes
- Number 27, 17 July, Review: 'Cashel Byron's Confession'
- Number 28, 24 July, What is to Happen Next?
- Number 28, 24 July, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter VII (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 29, 31 July, Free Speech in the Streets
- Number 29, 31 July, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter VIII (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 20, 7 August, Political Notes
- Number 31, 14 August, Mr. Chamberlain's Leader
- Number 31, 14 August, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 31, 14 August, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter IX (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 32, 21 August, The Abolition of Freedom of Speech in the Streets
- Number 32, 21 August, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 33, 28 August, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 33, 28 August, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter X (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 33, 28 August, Misanthropy to the Rescue
- Number 34, 4 September, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 35, 11 September, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 35, 11 September, The Paris Trades' Union Congress
- Number 35, 11 September, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XI (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 36, 18 September, An Old Story Retold
- Number 37, 25 September, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 37, 25 September, The Reward of 'Genius'
- Number 38, 2 October, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XII (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 40, 16 October, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 41, 23 October, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 42, 30 October, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 42, 30 October, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XIII (with E. Belfort Bax)
- Number 43, 6 November, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 44, 13 November, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 44, 13 November, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 45, 20 November, Mr. Jawkins at the Mansion House
- Number 46, 27 November, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 46, 27 November, The Ten Commandments
- Number 47, 4 December, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 47, 4 December, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 48, 11 December, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 48, 11 December, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 49, 18 December, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 49, 18 December, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 49, 18 December, Is Trade Recovering?
- Number 50, 25 December, 'The Law' in Ireland
- Number 50, 25 December, A Dream of John Ball
- 1887, Vol. III
- Number 51, 1 January, Political Notes
- Number 51, 1 January, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 51, 1 January, Editorial (with H. Halliday Sparling)
- Number 51, 1 January, [Untitled Paragraph on Trafalgar Square]
- Number 52, 8 January, Words of Forecast for 1887
- Number 52, 8 January, [Untitled Paragraph on the Czar]
- Number 52, 8 January, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 53, 15 January, Notes on News
- Number 53, 15 January, The Political Crisis
- Number 53, 15 January, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 54, 22 January, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 54, 22 January, A Dream of John Ball
- Number 55, 29 January, Notes on Passing Events
- Number 56, 5 February, Notes on News
- Number 56, 5 February, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XIV (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 57, 12 February, Notes on News
- Number 58, 19 February, Notes on News
- Number 58, 19 February, Facing the Worst of It
- Number 59, 26 February, Notes on News
- Number 59, 26 February, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XV (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 59, 26 February, Fighting for Peace
- Number 60, 5 March, Notes on News
- Number 61, 12 March, Political Notes
- Number 61, 12 March, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XVI (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 61, 12 March, Notes on News
- Number 61, 12 March, The Ambleside Railway Bill
- Number 62, 19 March, Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris
- Number 63, 26 March, Notes on News
- Number 63, 26 March, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XVII (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 64, 2 April, Notes on News
- Number 65, 9 April, Law and Order in Ireland
- Number 65, 9 April, The Revival of Trade
- Number 65, 9 April, Flogging in Egypt
- Number 67, 23 April, Notes on News
- Number 68, 30 April, Notes on News
- Number 68, 30 April, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XVIII (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 69, 7 May, Notes on News
- Number 70, 14 May, Notes on News
- Number 70, 14 May, Coercion for London
- Number 71, 21 May, The Reward of Labour - A Dialogue
- Number 72, 28 May, The Reward of Labour - A Dialogue
- Number 72, 28 May, Notes on News
- Number 73, 4 June, How We Live and How We Might Live
- Number 74, 11 June, How We Live and How We Might Live
- Number 74, 11 June, Notes on News
- Number 74, 11 June, The Indian Railways
- Number 75, 18 June, Notes on News
- Number 75, 18 June, How We Live and How We Might Live
- Number 75, 18 June, Notes
- Number 75, 18 June, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XIX (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 75, 18 June, Common-Sense Socialism
- Number 75, 18 June, The Labour Struggle - Belgium
- Number 76, 25 June, How We Live and How We Might Live
- Number 76, 25 June, An Old Superstition - A New Disgrace
- Number 76, 25 June, The North of England Socialist Federation
- Number 77, 2 July, How We Live and How We Might Live
- Number 77, 2 July, Notes
- Number 78, 9 July, Notes on News
- Number 79, 16 July, Notes on News
- Number 80, 23 July, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XX (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 80, 23 July, Notes on News
- Number 81, 30 July, The Boy-Farms at Fault
- Number 82, 6 August, Notes
- Number 82, 6 August, Bourgeois versus Socialist
- Number 82, 6 August, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XXI (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 83, 13 August, Notes
- Number 84, 20 August, Notes on News
- Number 84, 20 August, Feudal England
- Number 85, 27 August, Notes on News
- Number 85, 27 August, Feudal England
- Number 85, 27 August, A Note on Passing Politics
- Number 85, 27 August, Is Lipski's Confession Genuine?
- Number 86, 3 September, Notes on News
- Number 86, 3 September, Feudal England
- Number 87, 10 September, Notes on News
- Number 87, 10 September, Feudal England
- Number 87, 10 September, Notes on News
- Number 87, 10 September, Feudal England
- Number 87, 10 September, Artist and Artisan: As an Artist Sees it
- Number 88, 17 September, Notes on News
- Number 89, 24 September, Notes on News
- Number 91, 8 October, Notes
- Number 91, 8 October, Free Speech in America
- Number 92, 15 October, Notes
- Number 93, 22 October, Notes on News
- Number 94, 29 October, Notes on News
- Number 94, 29 October, Practical Politics at Nottingham
- Number 95, 5 November, Notes on News
- Number 95, 5 November, Honesty is the Best Policy (Part I)
- Number 96, 12 November, Notes on News
- Number 96, 12 November, Honesty is the Best Policy (Part II)
- Number 97, 19 November, London in a State of Siege
- Number 98, 26 November, Notes on News
- Number 98, 26 November, Insurance Against Magistrates
- Number 98, 26 November, The Liberal Party Digging Its Own Grave
- Number 99, 3 December, Notes on News
- Number 100, 10 December, Notes on News
- Number 101, 17 December, Notes on News
- Number 101, The Conscience of the Upper Classes
- Number 102, 24 December, Notes on News
- Number 103, 31 December, Emigration and Colonisation
- 1888, Vol. IV
- Number 104, 7 January, Notes on News
- Number 104, 7 January, Police Spies Exposed
- Number 104, 7 January, What 1887 Has Done
- Number 105, 14 January, Notes on News
- Number 105, 14 January, Radicals Look 'Round You!
- Number 106, 21 January, Notes on News
- Number 107, 28 January, Notes on News
- Number 109, 11 February, Notes on News
- Number 110, 18 February, Notes on News
- Number 110, 18 February, On Some 'Practical' Socialists
- Number 111, 25 February, Notes on News
- Number 112, 3 March, Notes on News
- Number 112, 3 March, A Triple Alliance
- Number 113, 10 March, Notes on News
- Number 113, 10 March, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XXII (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 114, 17 March, Dead at Last
- Number 114, 17 March, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XXII cont. (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 115, 24 March, Notes on News
- Number 115, 24 March, A Speech from the Dock
- Number 117, 7 April, Notes on News
- Number 117, 7 April, Socialism Militant in Scotland
- Number 118, 14 April, Notes on News
- Number 119, 21 April, Notes on News
- Number 120, 28 April, Notes on News
- Number 121, 5 May, Notes on News
- Number 121, 5 May, The Reaction and Radicals
- Number 121, 5 May, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XXIII (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 122, 12 May, Notes on News
- Number 123, 19 May, Notes on News
- Number 123, 19 May, Socialism from the Root Up, Chapter XXIII cont. (with E.Belfort Bax)
- Number 124, 26 May, Notes on News
- Number 125, 2 June, Notes on News
- Number 126, 9 June, The Policy of the Socialist League (Council of the Socialist League)
- Number 126, 9 June, Revolutionary Calendar: Wat Tyler
- Number 127, 16 June, Notes on News
- Number 127, 16 June, The Skeleton at the Feast
- Number 128, 23 June, Notes on News
- Number 128, 23 June, Pentonville Prison
- Number 128, 23 June, Counting Noses
- Number 129, 30 June, Notes on News
- Number 129, 30 June, Thoughts on Education Under Capitalism
- Number 130, 7 July, Notes on News
- Number 130, 7 July, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 131, 14 July, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 132, 21 July, Sweaters and sweaters
- Number 132, 21 July, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 132, 21 July, Notes on News
- Number 132, 21 July, The Match-Girls' Strike
- Number 133, 28 July, Notes on News
- Number 133, 28 July, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 134, 4 August, Notes on News
- Number 134, 4 August, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 135, 11 August, Notes on News
- Number 135, 11 August, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 135, 11 August, Footnote to 'Death of W.Stanley Jevons'
- Number 136, 18 August, Notes on News
- Number 146, 18 August, The Revolt of Ghent
- Number 137, 25 August, Notes on News
- Number 137, 25 August, Socialist Work at Norwich
- Number 139, 8 September, Notes on News
- Number 140, 15 September, Notes on News
- Number 141, 22 September, Notes on News
- Number 141, 22 September, A Modern Midas
- Number 143, 6 October, Notes on News
- Number 146, 27 October, Notes on News
- Number 148, 10 November, Notes on News
- Number 149, 17 November, Notes on News
- Number 151, 1 December, Notes on News
- Number 152, 8 December, Notes on News
- Number 153, 15 December, In and About Cottonopolis
- Number 153, 15 December, Notes on News
- Number 154, 22 December, Notes on News
- Number 154, 22 December, Talk and Art
- Number 155, 29 December, Notes on News
- 1889, Vol. V
- Number 156, 5 January, Notes on News
- Number 157, 12 January, Notes on News
- Number 158, 19 January, Notes on News
- Number 158, 19 January, Whigs Astray
- Number 159, 26 January, Notes on News
- Number 159, 26 January, Whigs astray
- Number 160, 2 February, Notes on News
- Number 161, 9 February, Notes on News
- Number 163, 23 February, Notes on News
- Number 164, 2 March, Notes on News
- Number 164, 2 March, Mine and Thine (Poem)
- Number 165, 9 March, Notes on News
- Number 166, 16 March, Notes on News
- Number 166, 16 March, All for the Cause (Poem)
- Number 167, 23 March, Notes on News
- Number 167, 23 March, Apologies for Missing the Paris Commune Celebrations
- Number 167, 23 March, To Manchester Friends
- Number 168, 30 March, Notes on News
- Number 168, 30 March, The Society of the Future
- Number 169, 6 April, Notes on News
- Number 169, 6 April, Ducks and Fools
- Number 169, 6 April, The Society of the Future
- Number 170, 13 April, Notes on News
- Number 170, 13 April, The Society of the Future
- Number 171, 20 April, Notes on News
- Number 172, 27 April, Notes on News
- Number 173, 4 May, Statement of Principles (signed 'Council of the Socialist League')
- Number 173, 4 May, Notes on News
- Number 174, 11 May, Notes on News
- Number 175, 18 May, Notes on News
- Number 175, 18 May, Correspondence (Letter Opposing the Anarchists)
- Number 178, 8 June, Notes on News
- Number 179, 15 June, Notes on News
- Number 180, 22 June, Notes on News
- Number 180, 22 June, Looking Backward
- Number 181, 29 June, Notes on News
- Number 182, 6 July, Notes on News
- Number 182, 6 July, Under an Elm Tree
- Number 185, 27 July, Impressions of the Paris Congress
- Number 186, 3 August, Notes on News
- Number 186, 3 August, Impressions of the Paris Congress
- Number 188, 17 August, Notes on News
- Number 188, 17 August, Correspondence: Communism and Anarchism
- Number 188, 17 August, Trial by Judge versus Trial by Jury
- Number 189, 24 August, Notes on News
- Number 191, 7 September, The Lesson of the Hour
- Number 192, 14 September, Notes on News
- Number 193, 21 September, Notes on News
- Number 194, 28 September, Notes on News
- Number 197, 19 October, Notes on News
- Number 198, 26 October, Notes on News
- Number 200, 9 November, Notes on News
- Number 201, 16 November, Notes on News
- Number 202, 23 November, Notes on News
- Number 202, 23 November, A Death Song (Poem)
- Number 203, 30 November, Notes on News
- Number 204, 7 December, Notes on News
- Number 204, 7 December, Monopoly
- Number 205, 14 December, Notes on News
- Number 205, 14 December, Monopoly
- Number 206, 21 December, Monopoly
- Number 207, 28 December, Notes on News
- 1890, Vol. VI
- Number 209, 11 January, News From Nowhere: Chapters I & II
- Number 210, 18 January, News From Nowhere: Chapter II (cont)
- Number 211, 25 January, News From Nowhere: Chapter III
- Number 211, 25 January, Fabian Essays in Socialism
- Number 212, 1 February, Notes on News
- Number 212, 1 February, News From Nowhere: Chapters III & IV
- Number 213, 8 February, Notes on News
- Number 213, 8 February, News From Nowhere: Chapter V
- Number 214, 15 February, Notes on News
- Number 214, 15 February, News From Nowhere: Chapter VI
- Number 215, 22 February, Notes on News
- Number 215, 22 February, News From Nowhere: Chapter VII
- Number 216, 1 March, News From Nowhere: Chapter VIII
- Number 217, 8 March, News From Nowhere: Chapter IX
- Number 217, 8 March, Coal in Kent
- Number 217, 8 March, Christianity and Socialism
- Number 218, 15 March, News From Nowhere: Chapter IX (cont.)
- Number 219, 22 March, Notes on News
- Number 219, 22 March, News From Nowhere: Chapter IX & Chapter X
- Number 219, 22 March, The Great Coal Strike
- Number 220, 29 March, News From Nowhere: Chapter X (cont.)
- Number 220, 29 March, Notes
- Number 221, 5 April, Notes on News
- Number 221, 5 April, News From Nowhere: Chapter X (Concluded)
- Number 222, 12 April, News From Nowhere: Chapter XI
- Number 222, 12 April, Notes on News
- Number 223, 19 April, News From Nowhere: Chapter XII
- Number 224, 26 April, News From Nowhere: Chapters XIII & XIV
- Number 225, 3 May, Labour Day
- Number 225, 3 May, Notes on News
- Number 225, 3 May, News From Nowhere: Chapter XV
- Number 226, 10 May, News From Nowhere: Chapters XV & XVI
- Number 227, 17 May, The 'Eight Hours' and the Demonstration
- Number 227, 17 May, News From Nowhere: Chapters XVI & XVII
- Number 227, 17 May, Notes
- Number 228, 24 May, News From Nowhere: Chapter XVII (cont.)
- Number 229, 31 May, News From Nowhere: Chapter XVII (cont.)
- Number 230, 7 June, News From Nowhere: Chapter XVII (cont.)
- Number 230, 7 June, Anti-Parliamentary
- Number 231, 14 June, News From Nowhere: Chapter XVII (Concluded)
- Number 232, 21 June, Notes on News
- Number 232, 21 June, News From Nowhere: Chapter XVIII
- Number 233, 28 June, Notes on News
- Number 233, 28 June, News From Nowhere: Chapter XIX
- Number 234, 5 July, News From Nowhere: Chapters XIX, XX & XXI
- Number 224, 5 July, Notes on News
- Number 235, 12 July, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXII
- Number 236, 19 July, The Development of Modern Society (Part I)
- Number 236, 19 July, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXII (Concluded)
- Number 237, 26 July, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXII
- Number 237, 26 July, The Development of Modern Society (Part II)
- Number 238, 2 August, The Development of Modern Society (Part III)
- Number 238, 2 August, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXIV
- Number 239, 9 August, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXIV (Concluded)
- Number 239, 9 August, The Development of Modern Society (Part IV)
- Number 240, 16 August, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXV
- Number 240, 16 August, The development of modern society (Part V)
- Number 241, 23 August, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXVI
- Number 242, 30 August, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXVI (cont.)
- Number 243, 6 September, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXVI (Concluded)
- Number 244, 13 September, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXVII
- Number 245, 20 September, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXVIII
- Number 246, 27 September, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXIX
- Number 247, 4 October, News From Nowhere: Chapter XXX
- Number 251, 1 November, Workhouse Socialism
- Number 253, 15 November, Where Are We Now?
- 1885, Vol. I
- Bibliography of Morris's Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890, from Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890, ed. and intro. Nicholas Salmon, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994.
- "An Old Story Retold," Commonweal 2.36 (18 September 1886), 197-98.
- "Free Speech in America," Commonweal 3.91 (8 October 1887), 324.
- "Educating Americans in Handicraft," Commonweal 4.129 (30 June 1888), 204-205.
- A Dream of John Ball, 11 installments, Commonweal.
- "Socialism from the Root Up," 25 installments, Commonweal.
- News from Nowhere, Commonweal, 1890, 39 installments.
- English Illustrated Magazine
- Justice: 'The Organ of the Social Democracy' [from the Marxists.org archive]
- 1884, Vol. I
- Number 1, 19 January, An Old Fable Retold
- Number 1, 19 January, The Principles of "Justice" (with H.M. Hyndman and J.Taylor)
- Number 2, 26 January, Cotton and Clay
- Number 4, 9 February, Order and Anarchy
- Number 4, 9 February, Chants for Socialists, No, 2: The Voice of Toil
- Number 4, 9 February, The Bondholders Battle (with H.M.Hyndman)
- Number 7, 1 March, An Appeal to Genuine Radicals
- Number 9, 15 March, Art or No Art? Who Shall Settle It?
- Number 11, March 5, Chants for Socialists, No. 1: The Day is Coming
- Number 12, 5 April, Henry George
- Number 13, 12 April, Why Not?
- Number 14, 19 April, Chants for Socialists, No. 3: All for the Cause
- Number 15, 26 April, The Dull Level of Life
- Number 18, 17 May, Factory As It Might Be
- Number 18, 17 May, The Propaganda Fund
- Number 19, 24 May, Individualism at the Royal Academy
- Number 21, 31 May, A Factory As It Might Be - II
- Number 21, 7 June, Chants for Socialists, No. 4: No Master
- Number 24, 28 June, A Factory As It Might Be - III
- Number 25, 5 July, The Propaganda Fund
- Number 26, 12 July, To Genuine Radicals
- Number 27, 19 July, The Housing of the Poor
- Number 28, 26 July, The Propaganda Fund
- Number 29, 2 August, The Propaganda Fund
- Number 30, 9 August, Socialism in England in 1884
- Number 34, 6 September, Uncrowned Kings
- Number 34, 6 September, Social Democratic Federation To The Trades Unions (William Morris et al)
- Number 36, 20 September, The Hammersmith Costermongers
- Number 39, 11 October, An Appeal To The Just
- Number 39, 11 October, Literary Courtesy: To The Editor Of "Justice"
- Number 44, 15 November, The Lord Mayor's Show
- Number 46, 29 November, The Hackney Election
- Number 49, 20 December, Philanthropists
- 1885, Vol. I
- 1884, Vol. I
- Articles on Morris in U. S. Periodicals from 1891-1900:
- 1891.030 Clarke, William. "William Morris." New England Magazine 9.6 (Feb. 1891): 740-749.
- 1891.095 Rev. of The Story of the Glittering Plain by W. Morris. Library 3.30 (Jun. 1891): 233-234.
- 1891.130 Wicksteed, P[hilip] H[enry]. "Morris's News From Nowhere." Ethics 2.1 (Oct. 1891): 132-133.
- 1892.097 Richardson, F. "William Morris: Poet and Socialist." Primitive Methodist Quarterly Review and Christian Ambassador 34 (Jul. 1892): 414-429.
- 1892.220 Kingsland, William G. "Notes and News" [W. Morris]. Poet-Lore 4.12 (Dec. 1892): 644-645.
- 1892.227 Tynan, Katharine. "A Man of Genius: Sketch of the Distinguished Poet, William Morris [excerpted in New York Tribune 52.16,828 (11 Dec. 1892): 17]." Indianapolis News 23.308 (5 Dec. 1892): 5.
- 1892.264 Tynan, Katharine. "An English Socialist [excerpted from "A Man of Genius: Sketch of the Distinguished Poet, William Morris." Indianapolis News 23.308 (5 Dec. 1892): 5]." New York Tribune 52.16,828 (11 Dec. 1892): 17.
- 1892.265 "The Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition." Philadelphia Inquirer 127.164 (11 Dec. 1892): 4.
- 1893.105 Triggs, Oscar L. "The Socialistic Thread in the Life and Works of William Morris." Poet-Lore 5.3 (Mar. 1893): 113-122.
- 1893.150 Triggs, Oscar L. "The Socialistic Thread in the Life and Works of William Morris. Continued from March Number." Poet-Lore 5.4 (Apr. 1893): 210-218.
- 1894.125 Powers, H.H. "Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome [by W. Morris and E. B. Bax]." American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals 4.5 (Mar. 1894): 834-835.
- 1895.295 Kingsland, William G. "A Poet's Politics: Mr. William Morris in Unpublished Letters on Socialism." Poet-Lore 7.10 (Oct. 1895): 473-477.
- 1895.310 Kingsland, William G. "A Poet's Politics: Mr. William Morris in Unpublished Letters on Socialism. Part II. Conclusion" Poet-Lore 7.11 (Nov. 1895): 543-546.
- 1895.323 I., I.H. "The Kelmscott Press: An Illustrated Interview with Mr. William Morris." Bookselling 1.12 (Dec. 1895): [2]-14.
- 1896.275 K[ingsland], W[illam] G. "London Literaria" [W. Morris]. Poet-Lore 8.7 (Jul. 1896): 468.
- 1896.394 "William Morris" [obituary]. Chicago Record 17.213 (4 Sep. 1896): 4.
- 1896.410 (Faulkner 74), Blatchford, Robert. "A Tribute to Morris." Clarion no. 253 (Oct. 1896): 324-325.
- 1896.460 Lang, A[ndrew]. "Mr. Morris's Poems [same in Living Age 211.2731 (7 Nov. 1896): 323-330]." Longman's Magazine 28.168 (Oct. 1896): 560-573.
- 1896.477 "William Morris Dead." New York Mail and Express 63 (3 Oct. 1896): 1.
- 1896.480 "Obituary: William Morris [same in Writer 9.12 (Dec. 1896): 186]." New York Tribune 56.18,221 (4 Oct. 1896): 7.
- 1896.48oa "The Death of William Morris" [excerpted in Literary Digest 13.25 (17 Oct. 1896): 781]. Springfield Republican 4 Oct. 1896: 6.
- 1896.481 "William Morris" [obituary; excerpted in Literary Digest 13.25 (17 Oct. 1896): 781]. Boston Evening Transcript 67 (5 Oct. 1896): 4.
- 1896.483 "William Morris's Death." Independent 48.2497 (8 Oct. 1896): 13.
- 1896.522 "Poems by William Morris." Springfield Republican 11 Oct. 1896: 13.
- 1896.525 "William Morris" [obituary notice; excerpts from Boston Evening Transcript 67 (5 Oct. 1896): 4 and Springfield Republican 4 Oct. 1896: 6]. Literary Digest 13.25 (17 Oct. 1896): 781.
- 1896.555 "William Morris [obituary with excerpts from various American newspaper obituaries]." Chautauquan 24.2 (Nov. 1896): 230-231.
- 1896.640 Dole, Nathan Haskell. "Notes and News: William Morris." Poet-Lore 8.12 (Dec. 1896): 630-635.
- 1896.655 "Personal Gossip about Authors: William Morris [same as New York Tribune 56.18,221 (4 Oct. 1896): 7]". Writer 9.12 (Dec. 1896): 186.
- 1897.070 "Monthly Record of Current Events: Obituary [W. Morris]." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 94.560 (Jan. 1897): 325.
- 1897.076 Johnson, M. "William Morris." Primitive Methodist Quarterly Review 39 (Jan. 1897): 104.
- 1897.130 “Notes and News: A Letter from William Morris.” Poet-Lore 9.2 (Feb 1897): 320.
- 1897.195 Williams, Francis Howard. “Immortality as a Motive in Poetry” [passim W. Morris and D. G. Rossetti]. Poet-Lore 9.3 (Mar. 1897): 367-375.
- 1898.090 “Notes and News [W. Morris].” Poet-Lore 10.1 (Jan. 1898): 158-159.
- 1898.265 “The Posthumous Romance of William Morris.” Outlook in Life, Politics, Finance, Letters, and the Arts 1.7 (19 Mar. 1898): 213-214.
- 1898.270 “William Morris’s Last Romance.” New York Tribune Illustrated Supplement 57.18,753 (20 Mar. 1898): 17.
- 1898.300 Sturgis, Russell. “The Art of William Morris.” Architectural Record 7.4 (Apr.-Jun. 1898): 440-461.
- 1898.415 Gwynn, Stephen. “William Morris [rev. of The Life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail].” Macmillan’s Magazine 78 (Jun. 1898): 153-160.
- 1899.105 “Life and Letters” [W. Morris]. Poet-Lore 11.1 (Jan. 1899): 153-154.
- 1899.235 Morris, William. “The Tale of King Coustans.” Poet-Lore 11.4 (Apr. 1899): 465-476.
- 1899.340 “Burne-Jones and William Morris.” Bookman [New York] 9.6 (Aug. 1899): 497-499.
- 1899.345 “William Morris by One Who Knew Him.” Bookman [New York] 9.6 (Aug. 1899): 533-535.
- 1899.365 Zueblin, Rho Fisk. “The Life of William Morris [by J. W. Mackail].” American Journal of Sociology 5.2 (Sep. 1899): 267-275.
- 1899.380 Benson, W[illiam] A[rthur] S[mith]. “William Morris and the Arts and Crafts.” National Review 34.199 (Sep. 1899): 268-271.
- 1899.385 Hubbard, Elbert. “William Morris [excerpted in Literary Digest 19.19 (4 Nov. 1899): 552-553].” Philistine 9.4 (Sep. 1899): 97-106.
- 1899.460 “William Morris’s Influence on Household Art [excerpts from Philistine 9.4 (Sep. 1899): 97-106].” Literary Digest 19.19 (4 Nov. 1899): 552-553.
- 1899.530 (Fredeman 43.46, 77.14) Streeter, A. “William Morris and Pre-Raphaelism [sic].” Month: A Catholic Magazine 94 (Dec. 1899): 598-608.
- 1899.535 Trent, W[illiam] P[eterfield]. Rev. of The Life of William Morris by J. Mackail. Sewanee Review 7.12 (Dec. 1899): 502-506.
- 1899.575 Ackerman, Eduard. “An American William Morris.” Book-Lover 2 (Winter 1899/1900): 203-205.
- 1900.090 Hulme, W[illia]m H. “Beowulf” [Rev. of The Tale of Beowulf trans. W. Morris and F. Wyatt]. Modern Language Notes 15.1 (Jan. 1900): 22-26.
- From Pre-Raphaelitism in the Nineteenth-Century Press: A Bibliography. Victoria: University of Victoria Press, 2002.
- Tobin, Tom. Pre-Raphaelitism in the Nineteenth-Century Press: A Bibliography. Victoria: University of Victoria Press, 2002.
- Morris and the Morris Society of Chicago, 1903-1905:
- Boos, Florence. "The First Morris Society: Chicago, 1903-1905," JWMS 21.4 (Winter 2014).
- Helsinger, Elizabeth. "'A Vestibule of Song': Morris and Burne-Jones in Chicago," JWMS 21.4 (Winter 2014).
- L"A Plea for the American Anarchists," Pall Mall Gazette (28 September 1887), 5.
Morris and the Book Arts Bibliography
- Boos, Florence. "The Critique of the Empty Page: Kelmscott Press and William Morris's Theories of Book Design." William Morris and Everyday Life, ed. Wendy Parkins, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2010, 65-85.
- Braesel, Michaela. "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris."JWMS 15.4 (Summer 2004): 41-54.
- Buxton Forman, H., The Books of William Morris Described. London: Frank Hollings, 1897 [reprinted 1976]. Formerly the standard bibliography of Morris's books despite the inclusion of forgeries and piracies perpetrated by the author and his friend Thomas J. Wise; for the current standard bibliography, see Eugene LeMire, A Bibliography of William Morris
- Cockerell, Sydney C., "History of the Kelmscott Press" and "An Annotated List of the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press," in William Morris, A Note on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. [Kelmscott Press, 1898]].
- Coupe, Robert L. M., Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English: A Descriptive Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. Second edition, 2011.
- Cowan, Yuri. "Collaboration, Translation, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press." To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss: William Morris and the Embodiment of Dreams, Mc-Gill-Queens University Press, 2014, 316-63.
- Dunlap, Joseph R., The Book That Never Was. New York, 1971. Account of the projected illustrated edition of Morris's The Earthly Paradise, which partially came to fruition a century later in the Rampant Lion Press version of The Story of Cupid and Psyche produced in 1974.
- Dunlap, Joseph R. "Morris and the Book Arts Before the Kelmscott Press." Victorian Poetry 13.3 and 4 (1975), 141-157.
- Faulkner, Peter. "The Kelmscott Chaucer and the Golden Cockerel Canterbury Tales," JWMS 19.1 (Winter 2010), 66-88.
- Frankel, Nicholas. "William Morris and the 'Moral Qualities' of Ornament," Socialist Studies/Etudes Sociaistes (Canada), 13.1 (Spring 2018), 23-35.
- LeMire, Eugene D. A Bibliography of William Morris, London: British Library; Newark, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.
- Life, Alan, "Illustration of Morris's 'Ideal Book,'" and Joseph R. Dunlap, "Morris and the Book Arts Before the Kelmscott Press," Victorian Poetry (1975). This was a special issue of the journal devoted to Morris, illustrated.
- Marsh, Jan. "Books in Bottles? William Morris and the Demise of Printing," JWMS 20.2 (Summer 2013).
- Peterson, William S., A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press. Oxford UP, 1984. Definitive, detailed information on the Kelmscott Press: includes provenance information and notes on particular copies and related materials.
- The Kelmscott Press Golden Legend: A Documentary History of its Production, Together with a Leaf from the Kelmscott Edition, ed. William S. Peterson. [College Park], 1990. Leaf book with introduction and facsimiles of related documents.
- Peterson, William S., The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Oxford UP, 1991. By far the best book on the subject, offering not only a detailed history of the Press but analysis of Morris's aesthetic seen in the context of Victorian printing. An essential work, superseding almost everything else written on the subject.
- Sparling, Henry Halliday,The Kelmscott Press and William Morris, Master Craftsman. London, 1924. Earlier history of the Kelmscott Press, incorporating Cockerell's checklist. Now superseded by Peterson's History.
- The Typographical Adventure of William Morris. [London: William Morris Society, 1957]. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the William Morris Society in 1957. Places Morris's work in context of other printers and designers from 1850 to 1940.
- William Morris And the Art of the Book, ed. Charles Ryskamp. New York: Oxford UP, 1976. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1976. With essays: "William Morris: Book Collector" by Paul Needham; "William Morris: Calligrapher" by Joseph Dunlap; and "William Morris: Typographer" by John Dreyfus. Detailed and illustrated, an essential source.
- Thompson, Susan Otis, American Book Design and William Morris. New York, 1977; reprinted Newark, DE, 1996. Pioneering study of the influence of Morris's Kelmscott Press on American publishers and printers.
- Walsdorf, John, William Morris in Private Press And Limited Editions. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1983. Useful bibliographical catalogue of books by and about Morris issued 1890-1982 in limited or fine editions.
- Samuels Lasner, Mark, William Morris: The Collector as Creator. New York: Grolier Club, 1996. Checklist of the exhibition held at the Grolier Club, 1996–97, listing books owned and read by Morris and examples of Morris's own works in literature, politics, and the book arts.
POETRY
Morris' Early Poems
- Before The Defense of Guenevere, with a checklist of Poems and Prose
- Introductory Materials
- Preface: William Morris's Earliest Poems: Preparation for The Defence of Guenevere
- Early Poems and Poetic and Prose Fragments including those not published in his lifetime
- List of Surviving Early Morris Poems, and Poetic and Prose Fragments (including those published in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine)
- Where have you been so long to-day?
- Ballad: Malmston had a dream in the night
- *The Mosque Rising in the Place of the Temple of Solomon (formerly known as "The Dedication of the Temple").
- *Fragment: From all other moving shadows
- *Fragment: And then as the ship moves over the deep
- The Willow and the Red Cliff
- Fragment: The Maying of Queen Guenevere
- The Long Land (Scene: A place that no one knows.)
- Rejected fragment from Sir Peter Harpdon's End
- Once my Fell Foe
- The Romance of the Three Wooers
- St. Agnes' Convent
- Palomydes Quest
- We have done all that men could do
- Ballad: There were two knights rode together
- Saint George
- *Why do they make these lists in the great square
- *A time there was in days long past away
- *The Lady of Havering
- I went through many lands and found no rest
- Rejected fragment from The Defence of Guenevere
- Scenes from the Fall of Troy
- On the Edge of the Wilderness
- *The Sleeve of Gold
- *The Lady of the Wasted Land
- *Lo Sirs a Desolate Damozel
- *Introduction to the "Story of the Flower"
- Songs from “The Hollow Land”
- Song from “Gertha's Lovers”
- Summer Dawn
- Song from “Golden Wings”
- *Prose Fragment: The Lady of the Waste Land
- *Prose Fragment: The Green Summer
- *Sir Richard
- *Dear friends, I lay awake in the night
- *Early Draft: The Man Born To Be King
- *Fragment: Yoland
- *Mad as I was I stopped
- *I who am curious . . . Sir Jaques prayed . . .
- Sir Giles War Song
- Song from "Frank's Sealed Letter" ("Wearily, drearily")
- "Hands" ('Twixt the Sunlight and the Shade" (later, the Prince's Song in "Rapunzel")
- The Captive (later "Riding Together")
- *That Queer Story
- *"My squire, in many lands I have been," fragment.
- Drafts in British Library Add. MS 45, 298A, May Be Morris's Adolescent Hand
- Fame: Why weepeth he? why weepeth he?
- The Abbey and the Palace: Standing away from the cornfields
- The Night-Walk: Night lay upon the city
- The Banners: Stands a house among the trees
- Drowned: What is the bottom of the river like?
- The Three Flowers
- *The Ruined Castle
- The Fen-River
- *14. The Blackbir
- 16. Winter Weather (earlier "The Midnight Tilt")
- 17. 'Twas in Church on Palm Sunday
- 18. Blanche (Broad leaves that I do not know /Grow upon the ground full low)
- Sources Cited
- AWS May Morris, ed., William Morris: Artist, Socialist, 2 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 1936
- CW William Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris, ed. May Morris. 24 vols. London: Longmans, 1910-15.
- OCM The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
- Le Bourgeois, John, “The Youth of William Morris.” Diss. Tulane,1971.
- Lindsay, Jack, William Morris: His Life and Work. London: Constable, 1975
- Stokes, E., "The Morris Letters at Texas," The Journal of the William Morris Society, 1, no. 3 (1963): 23-30.
- Fitz. MS 1 Fitzwilliam Museum, "Autograph MS of 7 Poems and 1 Prose Tale."
- Fitz. MS 2 Fitzwilliam Museum, "Autograph MS of 4 Fragmentary Poems and 1 Prose Tale."
- Fitz. MS 3 Fitzwilliam Museum MS 14/1917.
- List of Surviving Early Morris Poems, and Poetic and Prose Fragments (including those published in The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine)
- MANUSCRIPTS
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45, 298A
- "Untitled" ("Torches and waxlights quickened in the Hall")
- "Untitled" ("Begun October 15th, 1875")
- "She and He" (The blossom's white upon the thorn/The lily's on the lea)
- "State Aided Emigration in 1889" (Lo tim on the rollers all ready for sea)
- "As this thin thread on thy dear neck shall lie,"
- "The doomed ship drives on helpless through the sea,"
- "Near but Far Away" (She wavered, stopped, and turned; me thought her eyes,)
- "May Grown-A Cold" (O certainly, no month this but May!)
- "Lonely Love and Loveless Death" (O have I been harkening/To some dread newcomer?
- "Everlasting Spring" (O my love my darling,/what is this men say)
- "Hope Dieth: Love Liveth" (Strong are thing arms, O love, and strong/thy heart to live, and love, and long;)
- Song: "Twas one little word that wrought it"
- Song: "Our Hands Have Met"
- "Silence and Pity" (Thy lips my lips have touches no more may speak / The words that through my sorrow used to break)
- "Rhyme Slayeth Shame" (If as I come under her she might hear/ If words might reach her when I go away)
- "Why Doest Though Struggle" (Why dost thou struggle, strive for victory)
- "Fair Weather and Foul" (Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold,)
- "O far away to seek, close-hid for heart to find,"
- "O land sore torn and riven"
- "We loosened from the quays on a Friday,"
- "Thus have I told many ways of the dealings of prudence with men"
- "Peevish and weak and fretful do I pray"
- "Dramatic fragment containing King, Oliver, Sir Walter, and Yoland (Well put thy case and more than one of us)"
- "Thou hast it then the pouch,"
- "Sad-eyed and soft and grey thou art, O morn!"
- "So I rose and felt my feet on the daisied grass in a while,"
- "Alone and unhappy by the fire I sat,"
- "Deep Sea, Might Wonder" (from "Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper," copyist version 1)
- "The Man Who Never Laughed Again" (rough pencil draft)
- Unidentified fragment of draft ("Moreover in that time and place...")
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45, 298B
- "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice" (copyist version)
- "Autograph Poems"
- "Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper" ("So swift the hours are moving / Unto the time unproved")
- "The Mother Under the Mould," copyist version, ("Svend Dyring rode on the island-way / Yeah have not I myself been young")
- "State-Aided Emigration in 1889," copyist version, ("Lo trim on the rollers all ready for sea")
- "The Doomed Ship," copyist version, ("The doomed ship drives on helpless through the sea,)
- "Near But Far Away," copyist version, ("She wavered, stopped, and turned; methought her eyes,")
- "Everlasting Spring," copyist version, ("O my love my darling, / what is this men say")
- Song: "Twas one little word that wrought it," copyist version
- "As this thin thread on thy dear neck shall lie"
- "Silence and Pity," copyist version, ("Thy lips my lips have touched no more may speak / The words that through my sorrow used to break;")
- "Rhyme Slayeth Shame," copyist version, ("If as I come under her she might hear, / If words might reach her when I go away")
- "Why Dost Though Struggle," copyist version, ("Why dost thou struggle, strive for victory)
- "Fair Weather and Foul" ("Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold,")
- "O Far Away to Seek" ("O far away to seek, close-hid for heart to find,")
- "Peevish and weak and fretful do I pray," copyist version")
- "Dear God praise thee much more many a thing," copyist version
- "Deep Sea, mighty wonder," copyist version 2, (from "Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper")
- "Sad-eyed and soft and grey thou art, O morn!" copyist version
- "Alone and unhappy by the fire I sat," copyist version
- "They have no song, the sedge is dry," both autograph manuscript copyist versions
- "Three Chances and One Answer," copyist version, (O love, if all the pleasures of the earth)
- Song from Orpheus: "While agone my words had wings," copyist version
- Song from Orpheus: "O ye who sit alone and bend above the earth," copyist version
- Song from Orpheus: "Once a white house there was," copyist version
- Song from Orpheus: "O if ye laugh, then am I grown," copyist version
- Song from Orpheus: "O my love how could it be,"
- Song from Orpheus: "O hollow image of the very death," copyist version
- Song from Orpheus: "O love, love, love, folk told me thou wert dead," copyist version
- Song from Orpheus: "O hollow image of the very death," copyist version
- "The Man who Never Laughed Again," copyist version
- British Library Additional Manuscript 74, 255
- Fitzwilliam Library, Cambridge, Manuscript 2, Autograph Manuscript of Fragments of 5 Poems
- Fitzwilliam Library, Cambridge, Manuscript 3, Autograph Manuscript of Fragments of 8 Poems
- Fitzwilliam Library, Cambridge, Manuscript of Phillis M. Ellis, Manuscript of 2 Morris Poems
- "There were not ten men in all the house,"
- draft for an introduction to "The Story of the Flower" (see Unpublished Romances).
- "Scenes from the Fall of Troy," edited by A. P. M. Wright
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45, 298A
- Supplementary Materials
- 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 Items on the Early Writings
- Letter in Which Morris Discusses His Early Poems (May 1st, 1891)
- 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.
- Purkis, John, Morris, Burne-Jones and French Gothic, London: William Morris Society, 1985, 1991.
- 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
- Rossetti Archive introduction and selections, 1856. Enter Oxford and Cambridge Magazine into search engine; background information on each issues is provided by P. C. Fleming.
- The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856
- Table of Contents: Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, copy marked by Vernon Lushington (courtesy of David Taylor)
The Defence of Guenevere
- Featured Edition of The Defence of Guenevere, edited by Margaret Lourie
- Introduction, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London, 1981
- Contents
- The Defence of Guenevere
- King Arthur's Tomb
- Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery
- The Chapel in Lyoness
- Sir Peter Harpdon's End
- Rapunzel
- Concerning Geffray Teste Noire
- A Good Knight in Prison
- Old Love
- The Gilliflower of Gold
- Shameful Death
- The Eve of Crecy
- The Judgment of God
- The Little Tower
- The Sailing of the Sword
- Spell-bound
- The Wind
- The Blue Closet
- The Tune of Seven Towers
- Golden Wings
- The Haystack in the Floods
- Two Red Roses Across the Moon
- Welland River
- Riding Together
- Father John's War-song
- Sir Giles' War-song
- Near Avalon
- Praise of My Lady
- Summer Dawn
- In Prison
- Other Editions
- Manuscripts
- Huntington Library HM 6479, "Golden Wings"
- Huntington Library HM 6480, "Pray But One Prayer for Me"; later "Golden Dawn"
- British Library Ashley MS. 3860, "The Haystack in the Floods"
- Supplementary Materials
- Recent Criticism
- From the Journal of William Morris Studies
- Berry, Ralph. "The Symbolism of William Morris." JWMS 3.4 (Winter 1978): 20-34.
- Boos, Florence. "The Defence of Guenevere: Morris's Critique of Medieval Violence," JWMS, 18.4 (Summer 2010), 8-21.
- Braesel, Michaela. "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris."JWMS 15.2 (2004):41-54.
- Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism," JWMS 19.4 (Summer 2012), 40-62.
- Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Tennyson," JWMS 18.3 (Winter 2009), 15-51.
- Faulkner, Peter. "William Morris and Robert Browning," JWMS 2013 (Winter 2013), 13-30.
- Firth, Richard. "The Defence of Yseult: Swinburne's Queen Yseult and Wiliam Morris." JWMS 18.1 (Winter 2008), 85-95.
- Firth, Richard. "'Honorable and Nobel Adventures': Courtly and Chivalric Idealism in Morris's Froissartian Poems," JWMS 17.3 (Winter 2007).
- Helsinger, Elizabeth. "Lyric Colour: Pre-Raphaelite Art and Morris's The Defence of Guenevere." JWMS 15.2 (2004): 16-40.
- 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.
- Miles, Rosie. "Illustrating Morris: The Work of Jessie King and Maxwell Armfield."JWMS 15.2 (2004):109-135.
- Schofield, John. "The Defence of Guenevere and Contemporary Critics." JWMS 3.1 (Spring 1974): 27-30.
- Williams, Todd O. "Teaching Morris's Early Dream Poems through the Three Registers." Todd O. Williams, JWMS 17.2 (Summer 2007): 99-114.
- Wong, Alexander. "William Morris's The Defence of Guenevere." JWMS 19.1 (Winter 2010), 52-65.
- Zasempa, Marek. "Poetics of Absence in Morris's 'Concerning Geffray Teste Noire': Between Reality and Visualisation." JWMS 21.3 (Winter 2015).
- Other Selections
- 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.
- Bentley, D. M. R. (Dis)continuties: Arthur's Tomb, Modern Painters, and Morris's Early Wallpaper Design. Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 17-30.
- Berry, Ralph. "A Defense of Guenevere." Victorian Poetry 9(1971): 277-86.
- 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.
- Dahl, Curtis. "Morris's 'The Chapel in Lyoness': An Interpretation," Studies in Philology, 51 (1954), 482-491.
- Friesen, Janet Wright. "William Morris, Shaper of Tales: Creating a Hero's Story in 'Sir Peter Harpdon's End," Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 31-41.
- Frye, Northrop. "A Conversation with Northrop Frye About William Morris," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 10 (Spring 2001), 35-42.
- Frye, Northrop. "The Meeting of Past and Future in William Morris." Studies in Romanticism, Fall 1982, Vol.21(3), p.303
- Hassett, Constance. "The Style of Evasion: The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems." Victorian Poetry 29.2 (Summer 1991), 99-114.
- Hazen, James. "Morris's "Haystack": The Fate of Vision," Pre-Raphaelite Review 1.1 (November 1977), 49-56.
- Helsinger, Elizabeth. "Lyric Color and The Defence of Guenevere," chapter 3, Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, New Haven: Yale, 2008, 55-86.
- Herbert, Karen. "Dissendent Language in The Defence of Guenevere." Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 313-27. 299-312.
- Keane, Robert. "Rossetti and Morris: 'This Ever-Diverse Pair,'" The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Carole Silver, New York and London: The William Morris Society, 1982, 115-48.
- 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.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick. "Heroic Disintegration: Morris' Medievalism and the Disappearance of the Self." The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Carole Silver, New York and London: The William Morris Society, 1982,75-95.
- Latham, David. "Gothic Architectonics: Morris's 'Tune of Seven Towers," The Pre-Raphaelite Review, 2.2 (May 1979), 49-58.
- Mancoff, Debra N. "Problems with the Pattern: William Morris's Arthurian Imagery." Arthuriana 6.3 (1996), 55-68.
- Miles, Rosie. "Binding Men: William Morris's The Defence of Guenevere and the Circulation of Masculine Desire," Private and Public Voices in Victorian Poetry, eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Holger Klein. Tubinger: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000, 89-102.
- Sadoff, Diane. "Erotic Murders: Structural and Rhetorical Irony in William Morris' Froissart Poems," Victorian Poetry 13.3-4 (1975): 11-26.
- Sadoff, Dianne. "The Poetics of Repetition and The Defence of Guenevere." In The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Carole Silver, New York and London: The William Morris Society, 1982, 97-113.
- 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.
- Silver, Carole. "Dreamers of Dreams: Toward a Definition of Literary Pre-Raphaelitism."The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Carole Silver, New York and London: The William Morris Society, 1982, 5-51. [discusses Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne]
- Silver, Carol. The Romance of William Morris, Ohio University Press, 1982, pp. 40-42, 45-46.
- 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.
- Wood, Megan. "William Morris's Conditional Moment." RaVon: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Summer 2009).
- From the Journal of William Morris Studies
- Contemporary 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
- John Skelton, "Shirley," Unsigned Review, Fraser's Magazine, June 1860, 814-28
- Cove Editions, "Concerning Geffray Teste Noire"
- Notes on Froissartian Poems
- May Morris on Unused Later Alterations for the 1875 Edition, CW, Vol. I, Introduction
- Pre-Raphaelite Ballads, New York, A. Wessels Co., 1900
- Recent Criticism
The Life and Death of Jason
- Introduction
- Edition & Printed Books
- The Life and Death of Jason, Text
- Contents
- ARGUMENT
- BOOK I: Jason is warned of what his life shall be.
- BOOK II: Jason vows the quest of the Golden Fleece.
- BOOK III: The Argonauts called together.
- BOOK IV: The quest begun.
- BOOK V: Phineus freed from the Harpies.
- BOOK VI: The heroes come to Aea.
- BOOK VII: The magic potion of Medea.
- BOOK VIII: The quelling of the Earth-born.
- BOOK IX: The Fleece taken frown the temple.
- BOOK X: The Argo's passage northward.
- BOOK XI: The winter by the northern river.
- BOOK XII: The heroes come at last to the Pillars of Hercules.
- BOOK XIII: Medea receives counsel from Circe.
- BOOK XIV: The Sirens.
- BOOK XV: Argo in ambush; Medea goes to Iolchos; Pelias' death.
- BOOK XVI: The landing of the heroes; Jason made king.
- BOOK XVII: The death of Jason.
- Contents
- The Life and Death of Jason, Text
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- Background on Editions of Jason
- Annotations
- Index of Places Mentioned in the Poem
- Index of (Mythological) Persons Mentioned in the Poem
- Maps
- Illustrations
- Sources for the Argonauts, Dr. Peter Wright
- The Route of the Argonauts, Dr. Peter Wright
- Contemporary Reviews
- Criticism Since 1900
- Bibliography
- Literary Criticism:
- Boos, Florence. “Jason’s ‘Wise’ Women: Gender and Morris’s First Romantic Epic.” Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, edited David Latham. University of Toronto Press, 2007. 41-58. pdf
- Boos, Florence. The Pattern of William Morris's 'The Earthly Paradise.' Mellen, 1990.
- Faulkner, Peter. Against the Age: An Introduction to William Morris. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1980, pp. 37-46. [see selections below]
- Faulkner, Peter. William Morris: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. 50-76.
- Gibbs. Allegra. "William Morris' Use of Classical Sources in The Life and Death of Jason: A Classicist's Reading." M. Litt., University of Edinburgh, 1992.
- 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.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick. William Morris. Boston: Twayne, 1979, pp. 61-66.
- Mench, Martha D. The Argonautic Tradition in William Morris’ s “The Life and Death of Jason”: A Study in Poetic Eclecticism. Dissertation Abstracts 29 (1968): 1212A Yale Unversity.
- Miles, Rosie. "Illustrating Morris: The Work of Jessie King and Maxwell Armfield."JWMS 15.4 (2004): 109-135.
- Morris, May. Introduction, The Collected Works of William Morris, vol. 2: The Life and Death of Jason. London: Longmans, 1910, ix-xxviii.
- Oberg, Charlotte. A Pagan Prophet: William Morris. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1978, pp. 75-85. [see selections below]
- Silver, Carole. The Romance of William Morris. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1982, 50-55.
- Tompkins, J. M. William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry. London: Cecil Woolf, 1984, 89-95.
- The Major Source:
- Appollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica. New York: Macmillan, 1912. Loeb Classical Library.
- Morris also consulted Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, Pindar's Odes and Eudipides's Medea. He may also have drawn on the Odyssey, Ovid's Heroides, Diodorus's History, and the Argonautica of Apollodorus.
- Literary Criticism:
Tales Omitted from The Earthy Paradise
- Introduction
- Individual Tales
- The Wanderers
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- British Library Manuscript Add. MS. 45,305
- British Library Manuscript Add. MS 37,499, early draft of second version
- Supplementary Materials
- The Story of Dorothea
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary materials
- The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- The Wooing of Swanhild
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- "The Wooing of Swanhild." From Karl Anderson, "The Beginning of Morris's Interest in the History and Literature of Early Scandinavia: 1834-1870," Chap. 1, "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard, 1940.
- "The Wooing of Swanhild." From Karl Litzenberg, "Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1856-76." Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1933. Chapter 3.3 The Wooing of Swanhild 210-228
- The Story of Aristomenes
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- British Library Add. MS. 45,308
- British Library Ashley 4902
- Supplementary Materials
- The Wanderers
- Supplementary Materials
- Critical Responses to the Omitted Tales
- "The Wanderers"
- "The Story of Dorothea"
- "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice"
- "The Wooing of Swanhild"
- "The Wooing of Swanhild." From Karl Anderson, "The Beginning of Morris's Interest in the History and Literature of Early Scandinavia: 1834-1870," Chap. 1, "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard, 1940.
- "The Wooing of Swanhild." From Karl Litzenberg, "Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1856-76." Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1933. Chapter 3.3 The Wooing of Swanhild 210-228
- Periodical Publications
- Critical Responses to the Omitted Tales
The Earthly Paradise
- Introductions
- General Introduction
- Introductions to the Apology, "Prologue: The Wanderers," and Classical and Medieval Tales
- Introductions for Specific tales
- "Apology"
- "Prologue: The Wanderers"
- "Atalanta's Race"
- "The Man Born to Be King"
- "The Doom of King Acrisius"
- "The Proud King"
- "The Story of Cupid and Psyche"
- Additional note "The Story of Cupid and Psyche," ll. 1755-57 [Peter Wright]
- "The Writing on the Image"
- "The Love of Alcestis"
- "The Lady of the Land"
- "The Son of Croesus"
- "The Watching of the Falcon"
- "Pygmalion and the Image"
- "Ogier the Dane"
- "The Death of Paris"
- "The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon"
- "Acontius and Cydippe"
- "The Lovers of Gudrun"
- "The Story of Rhodope"
- "The Man Who Never Laughed Again"
- "The Golden Apples"
- "The Fostering of Aslaug"
- "Bellerophon at Argos"
- "The Ring Given to Venus"
- "Bellerophon in Lycia"
- "The Hill of Venus"
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of The Earthly Paradise
- The Earthly Paradise, London: F.S. Ellis, 1870
- The Earthly Paradise, London: Reeves and Turner, 1890
- Kelmscott Press Edition, 1868-1870
- Texts of Individual Tales, 2002 edition, with annotations
- Manuscripts
- Beinecke Library IpM834 870a,
- Beinecke Library AMS 1596, Tinker Collection,
- British Library Add. MS 45,299
- "The Death of Paris," early draft
- "The Story of Rhodope"
- "The Hill of Venus" The Hill of Venus British Library MS. transcription
- "The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon"
- British Library Add. MS 45,300,
- "The Fostering of Aslaug"
- British Library Add. MS 45,301
- "Bellerophon at Argos"
- "Bellerophon in Lycia"
- British Library Add. MS 45,302,
- "The Ring Given to Venus"
- British Library Add. MS 45,304,
- "The Story of Rhodope," rough draft and transcription
- British Library Add. MS 45,305,
- "The Story of Cupid and Psyche"
- British Library Add. MS 45,306,
- "The Proud King," rough pencil draft
- British Library Add. MS 45,309a,
- "The Palace East of the Sun and West of the Moon," copyist's version
- British Library Add. MS 45,309c,
- "The Proud King," copyist's version
- Fitzwilliam Library FW EP 25
- "The Hill of Venus"
- "The Lover's of Gudrun," draft
- "The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon"
- Huntington Library HM 6418
- The Earthly Paradise Volumes I, II, III
- "The Story of Rhodope," final draft
- "The Lovers of Gudrun," final draft
- "The Fostering of Aslaug," final draft
- "Bellerophon at Argos," final draft
- "Bellerophon in Lycia," final draft
- "The Ring Given to Venus"
- Huntington Library HM 6423, "The Hill of Venus," copyist version
- Supplementary Materials
- 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
- Riegel, Julius. Die Quellen von William Morris' Dichtung The Earthly Paradise, 1890.Victorian Reviews and Criticism
- More Recent 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 S. "The Structure of Morris's Tales for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine," Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 2-12
- 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 Soceity: 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.
- Ellison, Ruth C. "'The Undying Glory of Dreams': William Morris and 'The Northland of Old,'" Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bradbury and D. Palmer. London: E. Arnold, 1972, 138-75.
- Ellison, Ruth. "An Unpublished Poem by William Morris," English (Autumn, 1964): 100-102.
- Faulkner, Peter. "The Story of Alcestis in William Morris and Ted Hughes,"JWMS 16/23 (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.
- Latham, David. "Paradise Lost: Morris's Re-writing of The Earthly Paradise." Journal of Pre-Raphelite Studies 1.1 (Part 1): 67-76.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "Allusions to the Elder Edda in the 'Non-Norse Poems of William Morris." Scandinavian Studies 14(1935-37): 17-24.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "Tyrfing into Excalibur? A Note on William Morris's Unfinished Poem, 'In Arthur's House'," Scandinavian Studies 15 (1938-39): 81-83.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the Heimskringla." Scandinavian Studies 14(1935-36): 33-39.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the 'Literary' Tradition." Michigan Alumnus 53(1946): 48-55.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and Scandinavian Liteature: A Bibliographical Essay." Scandinavian Studies 13(1933-35): 93-105.
- Mauer, Oscar. "William Morris's Treatment of Greek Legend in The Earthly Paradise." Texas University Studies in English 33 (1954): 103-18.
- Mauer, Oscar. "William Morris and Gesta Romanorum." Studies in Language, Literature, and Culture of the Middle Ages and Later. Ed. E. B. Atwood. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969, 367-81.
- Mauer, Oscar. "William Morris and the Laxdaela Saga." Texas Studies in Language and Literature5(1963): 422-37.
- Mauer, Oscar. "William Morris and the Poetry of Escape." Nineteenth Century Studies. Ed. H. Davies, William DeVane, and R. C. Bald. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1940, 247-76.
- McGann, Jerome. "The Beauty of the Medusa." Studies in Romanticism 11.1(1972): 3-25.
- Morris, May. "Narrative Poetry: The Earthly Paradise" and "Workshop Notes." William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1936, vol. 1, 396-440.
- Oberg, Charlotte, "The Role of the Hero," chapter II, A Pagan Prophet: William Morris, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
- ---------. "Conclusion." Ibid.
- Riegel, Julius. Die Quellen von William Morris' Dichtung The Earthly Paradise. Erlangen & Leipzig. A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchh. Nachf. (Gerog Böhme), 1890.
- 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.
- Wahl, John Robert. "The Mood of Energy and the Mood of Idleness: A Note on The Earthly Paradise." English Studies in Africa 2.1 (1959): 90-9
- Illustrations & Drawings
- Illustrations: Drawings by Edward Burne-Jones; images of woodblocks by Morris and Burne-Jones
- List of drawings held in the Fitzwilliam Museum
- Stamping tools
- Hill of Venus
- 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
- SOURCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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- 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 S. "The Structure of Morris's Tales for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine," Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 2-12
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- Calhoun, Blue. "Pastoral: The Mood of Idleness," 61-62 and "The Four Seasons of Man and Society: The General Structure 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.
- Colvin, Sidney, Academy, December 1870, no. 2, 57-8.
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- Ellison, Ruth C. "'The Undying Glory of Dreams': William Morris and 'The Northland of Old,'" Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bradbury and D. Palmer. London: E. Arnold, 1972, 138-75.
- Ellison, Ruth. "An Unpublished Poem by William Morris," English (Autumn, 1964): 100-102
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- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the 'Literary' Tradition." Michigan Alumnus 53(1946): 48-55.
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- ---------. "Conclusion." Ibid.
- Pater, Walter. Westminster Review October 1868, xc, 300-312 pdf version
- G. A. Simcox, Academy, February 1870, i, 121-2.
- 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.
- Wahl, John Robert. "The Mood of Energy and the Mood of Idleness: A Note on The Earthly Paradise." English Studies in Africa 2.1 (1959): 90-97.
- Sources
- Criticism
Love is Enough
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- Critical Responses
- Boos, Florence. “'The Banners of the Spring to Be’: The Dialectical Pattern of Morris’s Later Poetry.” English Studies 81 (2000): 1-27.
- Boos, Florence. "Love Is Enough as Secular Theodicy." Papers in Language and Literature 24 (1988), 53-80.
- Colvin, Sidney. Review of Love Is Enough. Fortnightly Review, 1 January 1873, XIII, 147-48.
- 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.
- Mackail, J. W. The Life of William Morris, London: Longmans, 1899, vol. 1 and vol 2
- Morris, May, ed. The Collected Works of William Morris. Introduction to Vol. 9. Love Is Enough and Poems by the Way. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
- Simcox, G. A. Review, Academy, December 1872, vol. 3, 461-62.
- Tompkins, J. M. S. William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry. London: Cecil Woolf, 1988, 202-227.
- Wilson, John R. "William Morris's Love is Enough: A Parabolic Morality." Pre-Raphaelite Review 1 (1977), 16-26.
- Critical Responses
Sigurd The Volsung
- Introductions
- General Introduction, by Florence Boos
- Historical Introduction, "From Edda to Epic," by Peter Wright
- Editorial Introduction, Manuscripts and Revisions, by Karl Anderson
- Pre-Kelmscott Edition, Introduction to Book I, edited by Stuart Blersch
- Editions & Printed Books
- Pre-Kelmscott Edition, 1876
- Book I
- Of the dwelling of King Volsung, and the wedding of Signy his daughter
- How the Volsungs fared to the Land of the Goths, and of the fall of King Volsung
- Of the ending of all Volsung's Sons save Sigmund only, and of how he abideth in the wild-wood
- Of the birth and fostering of Sinfiotli, Signy's Son
- Of the slaying of Siggeir the Goth-king
- How Sigmund cometh to the Land of the Volsungs again, and of the death of Sinfiotli his Son
- Of the last battle of King Sigmund, and the death of him
- How King Sigmund the Volsung was laid in mound on the sea-side of the Isle-realm
- How Queen Hiordis is known; and how she abideth in the house of Elf the son of the Helper
- Book II
- Of the birth of Sigurd the son of Sigmund
- Sigurd getteth to him the horse that is called Greyfell
- Regin telleth Sigurd of his kindred, and of the Gold that was accursed from ancient days
- Of the forging of the Sword that is called The Wrath of Sigurd
- Of Gripir's Foretelling
- Sigurd rideth to the Glittering Heath
- Sigurd slayeth Fafnir the Serpent
- Sigurd slayeth Regin the Master of Masters on the Glittering Heath
- How Sigurd took to him the Treasure of the Elf Andvari
- How Sigurd awoke Brynhild upon Hindfell
- Book III
- Of the Dream of Gudrun the Daughter of Giuki
- How the folk of Lymdale met Sigurd the Volsung in the woodland
- How Sigurd met Brynhild in Lymdale
- Of Sigurd's riding to the Niblungs
- Of Sigurd's warfaring in the company of the Niblungs, and of his great fame and glory
- Of the Cup of evil drink that Grimhild the Wise-wife gave to Sigurd
- Of the Wedding of Sigurd the Volsung
- Sigurd rideth with the Niblungs, and wooeth Brynhild for King Gunnar
- How Brynhild was wedded to Gunnar the Niblung
- Of the Contention betwixt the Queens
- Gunnar talketh with Brynhild
- Of the exceeding great grief and mourning of Brynhild
- Of the slaying of Sigurd the Volsung
- Of the mighty Grief of Gudrun over Sigurd dead
- Of the passing away of Brynhild
- Book IV
- King Atli wooeth and weddeth Gudrun
- Atli biddeth the Niblungs to him
- How the Niblungs fare to the Land of King Atli
- Atli speaketh with the Niblungs
- Of the Battle in Atli's Hall
- Of the Slaying of hte Niblung Kings
- The ending of Gudrun
- Book I
- Kelmscott Press edition, 1898
- Sigurd the Volsung, London: Ellis & White, 1877
- Pre-Kelmscott Edition, 1876
- Manuscripts
- British Library
- British Library Add MS 37,497 Autograph manuscript draft
- British Library Add MS 37,498 Autograph manuscript draft
- British Library Add MS 45,310 Autograph manuscript draft
- British Library Add MS 45,311 Transcription
- British Library Add MS 34,312 Collation
- British Library Add MS 45,313 Rough manuscript draft
- British Library Add MS 45,314 Autograph manuscript draft
- British Library Add MS 45,315 Autograph manuscript draft
- British Library Add MS 45,316 Autograph manuscript draft
- British Library Egerton MS 2866 Autograph manuscript draft
- Huntington Library
- Huntington Library HM 6445, first draft, Autograph manuscript draft in pencil
- Huntington Library HM 6446, sent by Morris himself to someone who requested it, Autograph manuscript draft on blue paper
- British Library
- Supplementary Materials
- Notest to Books I-IV
- Contemporary Reviews
- Theodore Watts, Unsigned Review, Athenaeum December 1876, no. 2563, 753-5
- Edmund Gosse, Academy, 9 December 1876, x, 557-58.
- Unsigned, Atlantic Monthly, April 1877, xxxix, 501-4
- Unsigned, International Review, September 1877, iv, 696-9
- Unsigned, Literary World, February 1877, vii, 136-7
- Unsigned, North American Review, March 1877, cxxiv, 323-5
- Unsigned, Saturday Review, 20 January 1877, xliii, 81-2
- Later Criticism / Bibliography
- Anderson, George K., ed., The Volsung Saga (Providence, R. I.: Brown University), n. d., n. p.
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard, 1940. [portal page to pdfs];"Sigurd the Volsung," pp. 233-67. Also see headnote, "Manuscripts and Revisions."
- 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.
- Blench, J. W., "William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung: A Re-appraisal, " The Durham University Journal, OS 41 (1968), NS 30 (1968).
- Boos, Florence. “'The Banners of the Spring to Be’: The Dialectical Pattern of Morris’s Later Poetry.” English Studies 81 (2000): 1-27.
- Cumming, Mark, "The Structure of Sigurd the Volsung," Victorian Poetry 21 (Winter 1983), 403-14.
- Dentith, Simon. Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge UP, pp. 71-83.
- Dentith, Simon. Morris, ''The Great Story of the North,' and the Barbaric Past." Journal of Victorian Culture 14.2 (2009).
- 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.
- Frith, Richard, "The Worship of Courage: William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung and Victorian Medievalism." Beyond Arthurian Romances: the Reach of Victorian Medievalism, eds. Jennifer A. Palmgren and Lorretta M. Holloway. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 117-32.
- Gray, Donald J. "Arthur, Roland, Empedocles, Sigurd, and the Despair of Heroes in Victorian "Imagery of Gold in Sigurd the Volsung." Jane Ennis, 20-26. Poetry," Boston University Studies in English 5 (spring 1961), 1-17.
- Guzman, Robert W., ed., William Morris, trans., Volsung Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (New York: Collier, 1962).
- Hoare, Dorothy, The Works of Morris and Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature (Cambridge: University Press, 1937).
- Hollow, John, ed., "An Introduction: Sinfiotli," After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung, Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania: William Morris Society in the United States, 1977, 2-12.
- Kierstead, Christopher. Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism. Ohio State University Press, 2011, 143-177. Chapter 6: "Affinity vs. Isolation: Cosmopolitanism and the Racial Dynamics of Morris's Europe."
- Leiblein, Emil. Prinzipien und Andwendung des Stabreims in W. Morris' "Sigurd the Volsung." Amorbach: Gottlob Volkhardsche Druckerei, 1913.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1856-76."Diss., University of Michigan, 1933.
- Part I: The Materials for Study
- Chapter 1.1: Classification of Documents 1-19
- Chapter 1.2 History of William Morris's Old Norse Study 20-58
- Chapter 1.3: Morris's Appreciation and Criticism of Old Norse Literature 59-88
- Part II: Contributions of Old Norse Language and Literature to Morris's Style
- Chapter 2.1: The Language of Translation 89-167
- Chapter 2.2 Old Norse Allusions in the Poems 168-197
- Part III: Contributions of Old Norse Literature to the Substance of Morris's Poetry
- Chapter 3.1 Introduction 198-201
- Chapter 3.2 Tthe Wooing of Hallbiorn the Strong 202-209 [pdf]
- Chapter 3.3 The Wooing of Swanhild 210-228
- Chapter 3.4 The Fostering of Aslaug 229-244
- Chapter 3.5 The Lovers of Gudrun 245-275
- Chapter 3.6 Sigurd the Volsung 276-326
- Part IV: Conclusions 327-344
- Appendices
- A. Morris's Scandinavian Library 345-354
- B. The Scansion of Morris's Eddic Translations 355-382
- Bibliography 389-400
- Part I: The Materials for Study
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and Scandinavian Literature: A Bibiographical Essay." Scandinavian Studies and Notes, January 1, 1933, 93-105.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the Heimskringla." Scandinavian Studies and Notes 14.3 (1936), 33-39.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the 'Literary' Tradition." Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review 53 (1946), 48-55.
- Lowe, Luella, "William Morris' Mythological Adaptations in Sigurd the Volsung," M.A. Thesis University of Iowa, 1941.
- Magnusson, Eirikr and William Morris, trans., The Story of the Volsungs (London: WaIter Scott, 1888), pp. 105-107.
- McDowell, George Tremaine. "The Treatment of the Volsunga Saga by William Morris." Scandinavian Studies 7 (February 1923), 151-68.
- Meredith, Emily, "Iceland and William Morris: In Search of the Whole," After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung, ed. John Hollow. Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania: William Morris Society in the United States, 1977, 71-87.
- Morris, May, ed. and intro. The Collected Works of William Morris. Vol. 12: Sigurd the Volsung. London: Longmans, 1911.
- O'Donoghue, Heather. English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Silver, Carole, The Romance of William Morris, Ohio University Press, 1982, 111-119.
- Sossaman, Stephen, "William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung and the Pre-Raphaelite Visual Aesthetic," Pre-Raphaelite Review, 1 (May, 1978), 81-90.
- 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.
- Tompkins, J. M. S. "Sigurd the Volsung," in William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry. London: Cecil Woolf, 1988, 228-275.
- Tucker, Herbert, "All for the Tale: The Epic Macropoetics of Morris' Sigurd the Volsung," Victorian Poetry 34.3 (1996): 373-394.
- Tucker, Herbert. Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910. Oxford University Press, 2008. Discusses Sigurd the Volsung, pp.
- 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]
- Ullal, Kathleen. "'And my deeds shall be remembered, and my name that once was nought': Regin's Role in Sigurd the Volsung and Fall of the Niblungs." JWMS 19.4 (Summer 2012), 63-73.
- Van Doorn, Willem. Theory and Practice of English Narrative Verse Since 1833. Amsterdam: N. V. de Arbeiderspers, 1932; reprinted Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft, 1770, 62-81.
- Illustrations
- Sources
- 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.
- Morris's Letters on the Sigurd story in the Volsunga Saga; Morris's Notes on Northern Religion and Mythology
- Morris, William, Letter to Charles Norton, 21 December, 1869; to Algernon Swinburne, 21 December, 1869, from Norman Kelvin, ed., The Collected Letters of William Morris, vol. 1, 1984.
- Morris, William, Manuscript Notes, c. 1876, "The Mythology and Religion of the North," William Morris Gallery J149.
- May Morris's Commentary
- Morris, May, "The Influence of the North," William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist, Oxford: Blackwells, 1936, 468-492. Composition of Sigurd: meter, manuscripts, revisions, 47-92.
- Intro. Collected Works, ed. May Morris, London: Longmans, 1911, Vol. 12, xxii-xxx.
- Other Related Morris Poems
- Morris's The Wooing of Swanhild
- Morris's Translations from the Elder Edda
- 8. "The Prophecy of the Vala" (Heath-Dame they called her / At each home she came to,)
- 9. "The Song of Atli" (In days long gone / Sent Atli to Gunnar / A crafty one riding, / Knefrud men called him;)
- 10. "The Whetting of Gudrun" (Words of strife heard I, / Huger than any, / Woeful words spoken, / Sprung from all sorrow,)
- 11. "The Lay of Hamdir" (Great deeds of bale / In the garth began, / At the sad dawning / The tide of Elves' sorrow)
- 12. "The Lament of Oddrun" (I Have heard tell / In ancient tales / How a may there came / To Morna-land,)
- 13. "Lay of Thrym"
- 14. "Baldur's Doom" (Also "The Lay of Way-Wearer" [Vegtamsgruda])
- 15. Part of the Lay of Sigrdrifa (Now this is my first counsel, / That thou with thy kin / Be guiltless, guileless ever, / Nor hasty of wrath,)
Poems by the Way
- Introductions
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of Poems by the Way with notes
- Contents
- From the Upland to the Sea
- Of the Wooing of Hallbiorn the Strong.
- Echoes of Love's House.
- The Burghers' Battle.
- Hope Dieth: Love Liveth.
- Error and Loss.
- The Hall and the Wood.
- The Day of Days.
- To the Muse of the North.
- Of the Three Seekers.
- Love's Gleaning-Tide.
- The Message of the March Wind.
- A Death Song.
- Iceland First Seen.
- The Raven and the King's Daughter.
- Spring's Bedfellow.
- Meeting in Winter.
- The Two Sides of the River.
- Love Fulfilled.
- The King of Denmark's Sons.
- On the Edge of the Wilderness.
- A Garden by the Sea.
- Mother and Son.
- Thunder in the Garden.
- The God of the Poor.
- Love's Reward.
- The Folk-Mote by the River.
- The Voice of Toil.
- Gunnar's Howe Above the House at Lithend.
- The Day is Coming.
- Earth the Healer, Earth the Keeper.
- All for the Cause.
- Pain and Time Strive Not.
- Drawing Near the Light.
- Verses for Pictures.
- The End of May.
- The Half of Life Gone.
- Mine and Thine.
- The Lay of Christine.
- Hildebrand and Hellelil.
- The Son's Sorrow.
- Agnes and the Hill-Man.
- Knight Aagen and Maiden Else.
- Hafbur and Signy.
- Goldilocks and Goldilocks.
- Contents
- Kelmscott Press Edition, 1891
- Reeves and Turner, 1891
- Text of Poems by the Way with notes
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- Reviews and Criticism
- Anderson, Karl O.E. “Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris.” Diss. Harvard U, 1940.
- Boos, Florence. “‘The Banners of the Spring to Be’: The Dialectical Pattern of Morris’s Later Poetry.” English Studies, 81 (February 2000): 14-40.
- Boos, Florence S. “Narrative Design in The Pilgrims of Hope.” Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Ed. Florence S. Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: U of Missouri P, 1990. 147-66.
- Elton, Oliver. Review of Poems by the Way. Academy, 27 February 1892: 197.
- Faulkner, Peter. “The Briar Rose.” The Journal of William Morris Studies, 18.3 (Winter 2009): 56-63.
- Faulkner, Peter. “The Male as Lover, Fool, and Hero: ‘Goldilocks’ and the Late Prose Romances.” Victorian Poetry, 34 (Autumn 1996): 413-24.
- Garnett, Richard. Review of Poems by the Way. Illustrated London News, 9 January 1892: 50.
- George, J.A. “A Very Private Gesture: William Morris’ ‘A Book of Verse’ and its Public Sequel.” Private and Public Voices in Victorian Poetry. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Holger Klein. Tubinger: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. 103-10.
- Goodwin, Kenneth. “The Summation of a Poetic Career: Poems by the Way.” Victorian Poetry, 34 (Autumn 1996): 397-410.
- Henville, Letitia. “Late Victorian Ballad Translation.” Diss. University of Toronto, 2016.
- 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. Introduction. Poems by the Way. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994. v-xxxiv.
- Latham, David. Tales Omitted from The Earthly Paradise. William Morris Archive online.
- Litzenberg, Karl. “Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1856-76.” Diss. U of Michigan, 1933.
- Morris, May. Introduction.” The Collected Works of William Morris. Vol. 9. Ed. May Morris. London: Longmans, 1911. xxxiv-xxxix.
- Salmon, Nicholas. “The Communist Poet-Laureate: William Morris's Chants for Socialists.” The Journal of the William Morris Society, 14.3 (Winter 2001): 31-40.
- Salmon, Nicholas. “The Serialization of The Pilgrims of Hope.” The Journal of the William Morris Society, 12.2 (Spring 1997): 14-25.
- 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.
- The Pilgrims of Hope
- Reviews and Criticism
Pilgrims of Hope
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of The Pilgrims of Hope
- 1. The Message of the March Wind
- 2. The Bridge and The Street
- 3. Sending to the War
- 4. Mother and Son
- 5. New Birth
- 6. The New Proletarian
- 7. In Prison-And at Home
- 8. The Half of Life Gone
- 9. A New Friend
- 10. Ready to Depart
- 11. A Glimpse of the Coming Day
- 12. Meeting the War-Machine
- 13. The Story's Ending
- Periodicals: Serialization of The Pilgrims of Hope as published in Commonweal 1885-86
- Chapter 1, Vol. 1.2 March 1885, The Message of the March Wind
- Chapter 2, Vol. 1.3 April 1885, The Bridge and the Street
- Chapter 3, Vol. 1.5 May 1885, Sending to the War
- Chapter 4, Vol. 1.6, June 1885, The Mother and Son
- Chapter 5, Vol. 1.7, August 1885, The Pilgrims Of Hope - V
- Chapter 6, Vol. 1.8, September 1885, The New Proletarian
- Chapter 7, Vol. 1.10, November 1885, In Prison and At Home
- Chapter 8, Vol. 2.12, January 1886, The Half of Life Gone
- Chapter 9, Vol. 2.14 Vol. 2.14 March 1886, A New Friend
- Chapter 10, Vol. 2.15, April 1886, Ready to Depart
- Chapter 11, Vol. 2.17, 8 May 1886, A Glimpse of the Coming
- Chapter 12, Vol. 2.21, 5 June, 1886, Meeting the War Machine
- Chapter 13, Vol. 2.25, 3 July 1886, The Story's Ending
- Volume 1, Number 5, June, Attractive Labour
- Poems by the Way, Kelmscott Press edition, first edition, 1891
- Poems by the Way, London: Reeves and Turner, first trade edition, 1891
- includes 4 sections from "The Pilgrims of Hope" COmmonweal version
- The Pilgrims of Hope, trade edition (13 sections), 1901
- Text of The Pilgrims of Hope
- Manuscripts
- Huntington Library HM 6427
- Poems by the Way
- Huntington Library HM 6427
- Supplementary Materials
- Reviews and Criticism
- Anderson, Karl O.E. “Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris.” Diss. Harvard U, 1940.
- Boos, Florence. “‘The Banners of the Spring to Be’: The Dialectical Pattern of Morris’s Later Poetry.” English Studies, 81 (February 2000): 14-40.
- Boos, Florence S. “Narrative Design in The Pilgrims of Hope.” Socialism and the Literary Artistry of William Morris. Ed. Florence S. Boos and Carole Silver. Columbia, Missouri: U of Missouri P, 1990. 147-66.
- Elton, Oliver. Review of Poems by the Way. Academy, 27 February 1892: 197.
- Faulkner, Peter. “The Briar Rose.” The Journal of William Morris Studies, 18.3 (Winter 2009): 56-63.
- Faulkner, Peter. “The Male as Lover, Fool, and Hero: ‘Goldilocks’ and the Late Prose Romances.” Victorian Poetry, 34 (Autumn 1996): 413-24.
- Garnett, Richard. Review of Poems by the Way. Illustrated London News, 9 January 1892: 50.
- George, J.A. “A Very Private Gesture: William Morris’ ‘A Book of Verse’ and its Public Sequel.” Private and Public Voices in Victorian Poetry. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Holger Klein. Tubinger: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. 103-10.
- Goodwin, Kenneth. “The Summation of a Poetic Career: Poems by the Way.” Victorian Poetry, 34 (Autumn 1996): 397-410.
- Henville, Letitia. “Late Victorian Ballad Translation.” Diss. University of Toronto, 2016.
- 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. Introduction. Poems by the Way. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1994. v-xxxiv.
- Latham, David. Tales Omitted from The Earthly Paradise. William Morris Archive online.
- Litzenberg, Karl. “Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1856-76.” Diss. U of Michigan, 1933.
- Morris, May. Introduction.” The Collected Works of William Morris. Vol. 9. Ed. May Morris. London: Longmans, 1911. xxxiv-xxxix.
- Salmon, Nicholas. “The Communist Poet-Laureate: William Morris's Chants for Socialists.” The Journal of the William Morris Society, 14.3 (Winter 2001): 31-40.
- Salmon, Nicholas. “The Serialization of The Pilgrims of Hope.” The Journal of the William Morris Society, 12.2 (Spring 1997): 14-25.
- 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.
- "Why We Celebrate the Commune of Paris,"
- Commonweal, 19 March 1887, pp. 89-90.
- Reviews and Criticism
LIST OF POEMS
- Poems before the Defence of Guenevere
- Poems of the Earthly Paradise period
- Poems Presumed Written After 1875
- Translations
- Poems from the Prose Romances
PROSE
- "The Hollow Land" and Other Tales from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
- The Story of the Unknown Church, January 1856
- A Dream, March 1856
- Frank's Sealed Letter, April 1856
- Gertha's Lovers, July 1856, August 1856
- Svend and His Brethren, August 1856
- Lindenborg Pool, September 1856
- The Hollow Land, September 1856, October 1856
- Golden Wings, December 1856
- The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
- The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856
- Introduction and selections on the Rossetti Archive [Type "Oxford and Cambridge Magazine" into search engine; background information on each issue is provided by P. C. Fleming.}
- Text of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
- Table of Contents
- Published Essays and Reviews
- "Churches of North France: The Shadows of Amiens," The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, February 1856, 99-110.
- Review of Men and Women, by Robert Browning, from The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, March 1856, 162-172.
- Review of "Death the Avenger" and "Death the Friend," The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, August 1856, 477-479.
- The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856
- The Novel on Blue Paper
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of The Novel on Blue Paper. William Morris and Penelope Fitzgerald. London: Journeyman Press, 1982. Transcription.
- The Novel on Blue Paper. William Morris and Penelope Fitzgerald. London: Journeyman Press, 1982.
- Prior Publication, "The Novel on Blue Paper, William Morris," Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, New York, AMS Press, Inc., 10, 1982-83, Introduction 143-151, 152-220.
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- Text of The Novel on Blue Paper
- Introduction
- I. The Village of Ormslade
- II. The Rectory
- III. Mrs. Risley's Secret
- IV. Eleanor's Visit
- V. The Two Lads
- VI. In the Garden--Old Jack's Story
- VII. Father and Son
- VIII. Up the Stream
- IX. The Aloe Blossoms
- X. Clara and Her Mother
- XI. How the Day Ended
- XII. Clara's Letter
- XIII. The Pleasure-Party: The Beginning
- XIV. The Pleasure-Party: The End
- XV. John Leaves Home
- Conclusion
- The Novel on Blue Paper [pdf]
- 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.
- May Morris. "The Hollow Land" and Other OCM Tales, intro. to Collected Works, vol. 1. London: Longmans, 1910.
- 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.
- Criticism
- Other Essays on the Early Writings
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- Boos, Florence S. "'A Holy Warfare Against the Age': Essays and Tales in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review 46 (2014): 344-68.
- Boos, Florence S. "Attributions of Authorship in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Notes and Queries, 61.4 (November 2014): 561-63.
- Boos, Florence S. "The Structure of Morris' Tales for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." Victorian Periodicals Review20 (1987), 2-12.
- Deal, Kenneth. "Acts of Completion: The Search for Vocation in Morris's Early Prose Romances," The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Carole Silver, New York and London: The William Morris Society, 1982, 53-74.
- Hodgson, Amada. "The Early Romances," in The Romances of William Morris. Cambridge UP, 1987, 20-30.
- Hollow, John. "William Morris and the Judgment of God." PMLA 86 (1971), 446-53.
- 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.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick. "Heroic Disintegration: Morris's Medievalism and the Disappearance of the Self," The Golden Chain: Essays on William Morris and Pre-Raphaelitism, ed. Carole Silver, New York and London: The William Morris Society, 1982, 75-95.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick. "Morris's 'Child Roland': The Deformed Not Quite Transformed," Pre-Raphaelite Review 1.1 (November 1977), 95-105.
- 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.
- Purkis, John, Morris, Burne-Jones and French Gothic, London: William Morris Society, 1985, 1991
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The House of the Wolfings
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of The House of the Wolfings
- Table of Contents
- 1. The Dwellings of Mid-Mark
- 2. The Flitting of the War-Arrow
- 3. Thiodolf Talketh With the Wood-Sun
- 4. The House Fareth to the War
- 5. Concerning the Hall-Sun
- 6. They Talk on the Way to the Folk-Thing
- 7. They Gather to the Folk-Mote
- 8. The Folk-Mote of the Markmen
- 9. The Ancient Man of the Daylings
- 10. That Carline Cometh to the Roof of the Wolfings
- 11. The Hall-Sun Speaketh
- 12. Tidings of the Battle in Mirkwood
- 13. The Hall-Sun Saith Another Word
- 14. The Hall-Sun is Careful Concerning the Passes of the Wood
- 15. The Hear Tell of the Battle on the Ridge
- 16. How the Dwarf-Wrought Hauberk Was Brought Away from the Hall of the Daylings
- 17. The Wood-Sun Speaketh With Thiodolf
- 18. Tidings Brought to the Wain-Burg
- 19. Those Messengers Come to Thiodolf
- 20. Otter and His Folk Come Into Mid-Mark
- 21. They Bicker About the Ford
- 22. Otter Falls On Against His Will
- 23. Thiodolf Meeteth the Romans in the Wolfing Meadow
- 24. The Goths are Overthrown by the Romans
- 25. The Hose of the Markmen Cometh into the Wild-Wood
- 26. Thiodolf Talketh With the Wood-Sun
- 27. They Wend to the Morning Battle
- 28. Of the Storm of Dawning
- 29. Of Thiodolf’s Storm
- 30. Thiodolf is Borne Out of the Hall and Otter Is Laid Beside Him
- 31. Old Asmund Speaketh Over the War-Dukes: The Dead Are Laid In Mound
- The House of the Wolfings, London: Reeves and Turner, 1889
- Text of The House of the Wolfings
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- Prior Publication
- Criticism
- Anderson, Karl, "Scandinavian Influences in The House of the Wolfings," in "Scandinavian Influences in the Works of William Morris," Diss., Harvard University, 304-305
- Bono, Barbara J. "The Prose Fictions of William Morris: A Study in the Literary Aesethetic of a Victorian Social Reformer," Victorian Poetry 13.3 and 4 (1975), 43-59. Also discusses other prose romances.
- 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.
- May Morris's Remarks on the Prose Romances, especially The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains, May Morris, William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist, Oxford: Blackwells, 1936, 509-16.
- Oberg, Charlotte. "The Uses of History," in A Pagan Prophet: William Morris, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
- Salmon, Nicholas. "A Study in Victorian Historiography: William Morris's Germanic Romances." JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 59-89.
- Unsigned review. Atlantic Monthly, June 1890, 65, 851-54.
- Valentine, K. B. "Motifs from Nature in the Design Work and Prose Romances of William Morris, 1876-1896," Victorian Poetry 13,3 and 4(1975), 83-89.
- Vaninskaya, Anna. "William Morris's Germania: The Roots of Socialism," in William Morris in the 21st Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
- Vaninskaya, Anna. "William Morris: The Myth of the Fall," JWMS 18.3 (2009), 48-57.
The Roots of the Mountains
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of The Roots of the Mountains
- 1.Of Burgstead and Its Folk and Its Neighbors
- 2. Of Face-of-God and His Kindred
- 3. They Talk of Divers Matters in the Hall
- 4. Face-of-God Fareth to the Wood Again
- 5. Face-of-God Falls In With Menfolk on the Mountain
- 6. Of Face-of-God and Those Mountain-Dwellers
- 7. Face-of-God Talketh With the Friend on the Mountain
- 8. Face-of-God Cometh Home Again to Burgstead
- 9. Those Brethren Fare to the Yewwood With the Bride
- 10. New Tidings in the Dale
- 11. Men Make Oath at Burgstead on the Holy Boar
- 12. Stone-Face Telleth Concerning the Wood-Wights
- 13. They Fare to the Hunting of the Elk
- 14. Concerning Face-of-God and the Mountain
- 15. Murder Amongst the Folk of the Woodlanders
- 16. The Bride Speaketh With Face-of-God
- 17. The Token Cometh from the Mountain
- 18. Face-of-God Talketh With the Friend in Shadowy Vale
- 19. The Fair Woman Telleth Face-of-God of Her Kindred
- 20. Those Two Together Hold the Ring of the Earth-God
- 21. Face-of-God Looketh on the Dusky Men
- 22. Face-of-God Cometh Home to Burgstead
- 23. Talk in the Hall of the House of the Face
- 24. Face-of-God Giveth That Token to the Bride
- 25. Of the Gate-Thing at Burgstead
- 26. The Ending of the Gate-Thing
- 27. Face-of-God Leadeth a Band Through the Wood
- 28. The Men of Burgdale Meet the Runaways
- 29. They Bring the Runaways to Burgstead
- 30. Hall-Face Goeth Toward Rose-Dale
- 31. Of the Weapon-Show of the Men of Burgdale and Their Neighbours
- 32. The Men of Shadowy Vale Come to the Spring Market at Burgstead
- 33. The Alderman Gives Gifts to Them of Shadowy Vale
- 34. The Chieftans Take Counsel in the Hall of the Face
- 35. Face-of-God Talketh With the Sun-Beam
- 36. Folk-Might Speaketh With the Bride
- 37. Of the Folk-Mote of the Dalesmen, the Shepherd-Folk, and the Woodland Carles:
The Banner of the Wolf Displayed - 38. Of the Great Folk-Mote: Atonements Given, and Men Made Sackless
- 39. Of the Great Folk-Mote: Men Take Rede of the War-Faring, the Fellowship, and the War-Leader. Folk-Might Telleth Whence His People Came. The Folk-Mote Sundered
- 40. Of the Hosting in Shadowy Vale
- 41. The Host Departeth from Shadowy Vale: The First Day’s Journey
- 42. The Host Cometh to the Edges of Silver-Dale
- 43. Face-of-God Looketh on Silver-Dale: The Bowman’s Battle
- 44. Of the Onslaught of the Men of the Steer, the Bridge, and the Bull
- 45. Of Face-of-God’s Onslaught
- 46. Men Meet in the Market of Silver-Stead
- 47. The Kindreds Win the Mote-House
- 48. Men Sing in the Mote-House
- 49. Dallach Fareth to Rose-Dale: Crow Telleth of His Errand: The Kindreds Eat Their Meat
in Silver-Dale - 50. Folk-Might Seeth the Bride and Speaketh With Her
- 51. The Dead Borne to Bale: The Mote-House Re-Hallowed
- 52. Of the New Beginning of Good Days in Silver-Dale
- 53. Of the Word Which Hall-Ward of the Steer had for Folk-Might
- 54. Tidings of Dallach: A Folk-Mote in Silver-Dale
- 55. Departure from Silver-Dale
- 56. Talk Upon the Wild-Wood Way
- 57. How the Host Came Home Again
- 58. How the Maiden Ward Was Held in Burgdale
- 59. The Behest of Face-of-God to the Bride Accomplished: A Mote-Stead Appointed for the Three Folks, to Wit, the Men of Burgdale, the Shepherds, and the Children of the Wolf
- 1.Of Burgstead and Its Folk and Its Neighbors
- The Roots of the Mountains, London: Reeves and Turner, 1890
- Text of The Roots of the Mountains
- Manuscripts
- Huntington Library Manuscripts HM 6424
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45,328
- Drafts, poems from The Roots of the Mountains, ff. 54-58
- Supplementary Materials
- Criticism
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in The Roots of the Mountains," from "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard University, 1940, 319-35.
- Boos, Florence, “Morris’s German Romances as Socialist History,” Victorian Studies 27.3 (Spring, 1984): 321-42.
- Hansen, Regina, "Forms of Friendship in The Roots of the Mountains." JWMS 11.3 (Autumn 1995): 19-21.
- Mathews, Richard, "William Morris's Roots: History into Metaphor." Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens 16 (1982), 69-76.
- Morris, May, Remarks on the Prose Romances, especially The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains, May Morris, William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist, Oxford: Blackwells, 1936, 509-16.
- 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. V
- Vaninskaya, Anna, "William Morris's Germania: The Roots of Socialism," in William Morris in the 21st Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
- Criticism
A Dream of John Ball
- Introductions
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of A Dream of John Ball
- Table of Contents
- 1. The Men of Kent
- 2. The Man from Essex
- 3. They Meet at the Cross
- 4. The Voice of John Ball
- 5. They Hear Tidings of Battle and Make Them Ready
- 6. The Battle at the Township’s End
- 7. More Words at the Cross
- 8. Supper at Will Green’s
- 9. Betwixt the Living and the Dead
- 10. Two Talk of the Days to Come
- 11. Hard It Is for the Old World to See the New
- 12. Ill Would Change Be at Whiles Were It Not for the Change Beyond the Change
- A Dream of John Ball, London: Reeves and Turner, 1888
- Kelmscott Press Edition, 1892
- Periodicals: Serialization of A Dream of John Ball in Commonweal 1886-87
- Commonweal 1886-87
- Chapter 1, pp. 257-58, 13 Nov. 1886
- Chapter 2, pp. 266-67, 20 Nov. 1886
- Chapter 3, pp. 274-75, 27 Nov. 1886
- Chapter 4, pp. 282-83, 4 Dec. 1886
- Chapter 5, pp. 290-91, 11 Dec. 1886
- Chapter 6, pp. 298-99, 18 Dec. 1886
- Chapter 7, p. 307, 25 Dec. 1886
- Chapter 8, p. 3, 1 January 1887
- Chapter 9, p. 13, 8 January 1887
- Chapter 10, pp. 20-21, 15 Jan. 1887
- Chapter 11, pp. 28-29, 22 Jan. 1887
- Text of A Dream of John Ball
- Manuscripts
- Supplementary Materials
- Sources
- Critical Articles and Book Chapters
- 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.
- Courtney, Julia. "Versions of the Past, Problems of the Present, Hopes for the Future: Morris and Others Rewrite the Peasants' Revolt." JWMS 21.2 (Summer 2015).
- Cowan, Yuri. "'Paradyse Erthly': John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision," Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007: 137-53.
- Faulkner, Peter. William Morris and the Idea of England. London: William Morris Society, 1992.
- Grennan, Margaret. William Morris: Medievalist to Revolutionary. New York: King's Crown Press, 1945, Chapter 4, John Ball. All Chapters
- Guy, Josephine M. "William Morris," The British Avant-Garde: The Theory and Politics of Tradition. New York and London: Harvester, 1991, 119-38.
- Hilton, Rodney. The Change Beyond the Change: A Dream of John Ball. William Morris Society, 1990.
- Jones, Leslie S.A. "The People's Uprising of 1381," Jubilee Group and National Museum of Labour History publication, 1981.
- 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.
- Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "No News Is Good News: William Morris's Utopian Print: Orality and Print Culture," in News from Nowhere and A Dream of John Ball," Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013, 58-67.
- Oberg, Charlotte. Chapter VII, "The Uses of History," A Pagan Prophet: William Morris. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1978.
- Salmon, Nicholas. "A Reassessment of A Dream of John Ball." JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 29-38 [PDF].
- Salmon, Nicholas. "The Revision of A Dream of John Ball." JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 15-17 [PDF].
- Timo, Helen. "'A Not So Golden Age': The Genesis of Morris's A King's Lesson."JWMS 7.4 (Spring 1988): 16-18.
- Relevant Essays by Morris
- "The Lord Mayor's Show, 1884," in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 132-36. Published in Justice, 1.44, 15 November 1884, 2.
- "Revolutionary Calendar: Watt Tyler, 1888," in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 141-42. Published in Commonweal 4.126, 9 June 1888, 182.
- "Early England," in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 51-70. Unpublished in Morris's lifetime; included in Eugene Le Mire, ed., Unpublished Lectures of William Morris, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969.
- "The Gothic Revival, I," in Eugene Le Mire, Unpublished Lectures of Wiliam Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969, 74-93. From B. L. Ms. 45,331(10). Delivered March 3, 1884 to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
- "The Gothic Revival, II," in Eugene Le Mire, Unpublished Lectures of Wiliam Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969, 74-93. From B. L. Ms. 45,331(1). Delivered March 10, 1884 to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
- "Feudal England," in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 71-89. From Commonweal, 20 August-10 September 1887.
- "Art and Industry in the Fourteenth Century, " in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 90-105. Unpublished in Morris's lifetime; included in Collected Works, ed. My Morris, vol. 22
- "Revolt of Ghent," Commonweal, July-August 1888.
- Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome, London: Swan Sonnenshein, 1896, co-authored with E. Belfort Bax; also available from Archive.org; revised from with preface and introduction from "Socialism from the Root Up" Commonweal 1886-1888, from the Marxists Archive.
- Supplementary Materials on "A King's Lesson"
- Related Text
A King's Lesson
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Supplementary Materials
News from Nowhere
- Introduction
- Editions & Printed Books
- Text of News from Nowhere
- Table of Contents
- 1. Discussion and Bed
- 2. A Morning Bath
- 3. The Guest House and Breakfast Therein
- 4. A Market by the Way
- 5. Children on the Road
- 6. A Little Shopping
- 7. Trafalgar Square
- 8. An Old Friend
- 9. Concerning Love
- 10. Questions and Answers
- 11. Concerning Government
- 12. Concerning the Arrangement of Life
- 13. Concerning Politics
- 14. How Matters are Managed
- 15. On the Lack of Incentive to Labour in a Communist Society
- 16. Dinner in the Hall of the Bloomsbury Market
- 17. How the Change Came
- 18. The Beginning of the New Life
- 19. The Drive Back to Hammersmith
- 20. The Hammersmith Guest-House Again
- 21. Going Up the River
- 22. Hamptom Court and a Praiser of Past Times
- 23. An Early Morning by Runnymede
- 24. Up the Thames: The Second Day
- 25. The Third Day on the Thames
- 26. The Obstinate Refusers
- 27. The Upper Waters
- 28. The Little River
- 29. A Resting-Place on the Upper Thames
- 30. The Journey’s End
- 31. An Old House Amongst New Folk
- 32. The Feast’s Beginning—The End
- Kelmscott Press Edition, 1892
- Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890
- London: Reeves and Turner, 1891
- Serialization of News from Nowhere in Commonweal, 1890
- Text of News from Nowhere
- Manuscripts
- News from Nowhere, Morgan Library, New York MA 5073
- MA 5073.1
- MA 5073.2
- MA 5073.3
- MA 5073.1-3, Description of Early Draft
- MA 5073, Transcription
- News from Nowhere, Morgan Library, New York MA 4591
- Description of MA 4591
- Transcription of Variants
- Proof Sheets: Kemlscott Press Edition
- News from Nowhere, Morgan Library, New York MA 5073
- Supplementary Materials
The Story of the Glittering Plain
The Wood Beyond the World
The Well at the World's End
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Sundering Flood
The Novel on Blue Paper
Unfinished Romances
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- Dramatic Works
- The Tables Turned, edited by Pamela Bracken
- For Diaries and Essays, see Diaries/Essays Portal.
- For Translations of Prose Works, see Translations Portal.
- Dramatic Works
- 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
- Chapters I–VI, pp. 687–98, June 1890; 81.
- Chapters VII–XII, pp. 754–68, July 1890; 82.
- Chapters XIII–XVIII, pp. 824–38, Aug. 1890; 83
- Chapters XIX–XXII, pp. 884–900 , Sept. 1890; 84.
- Supplementary Material: Criticism
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in The Story of the Glittering Plain," in "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris," Diss. Harvard University, 1940, 337-42.
- 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.
- Seaman, Graham. Introduction to The Glittering Plain. Marxists.org, 2003.
- 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.
- Tyson, Nancy. "Art and Society in the Late Prose Narratives of William Morris," Pre-Raphaelite Review 1.2 (May, 1978), 1-11.
- 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
- The King's Son and The Carle's Son Society of Antiquaries Early Draft Manuscript 908
- Early draft, "The King's Son and the Carle's Son," transcription
Supplementary Materials:
- Introduction by Kathleen O'Neill Sims
- Notes by Kathleen O'Neill Sims
- Criticism
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in The Wood Beyond the World,"from "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss., Harvard University, 1940, 365-69.
- 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).
- Calhoun, Blue et alia, Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris: Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, December 1975,intro. Frederick Kirchhoff. New York: William Morris Society, 1976. [entire volume]
- Calhoun, Blue, “`The Little Land of Abundance’: Pastoral Perspective in the Late Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, 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.
- Hollow, John. “Deliberate Happiness: The Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick, “Introduction.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Mathews, Richard. Worlds Beyond the World: The Fantastic Vision of William Morris. San Bernardino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1978. [pdf]
- Mendelson, Michael. "Opening Moves: The Entry into the Other World," Extrapolation 25 (1984): 171-79.
- Morris, William, Letter to Spectator, 1885, vol. 75 (July-December) [pdf]
- Newman, Hilary. "The Influence of De La Motte Fouqué's Sintram and His Companions on William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World." JWMS 14.2 (2001): 47-53.
- Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances." JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
- Oberg, Charlotte, “Motif and Theme in the Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” in Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, with an introduction by Frederick Kirchhoff, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Silver, Carole. “Myth and Ritual in the Last Romances of William Morris.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- 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.
- William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 209-228.
- The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- Introduction by Florence S. Boos
- Text of The Water of the Wondrous Isles
- The First Part: Of the House of Captivity
- The Second Part: Of the Wondrous Isles
- The Third Part: Of the Castle of the Quest
- The Fourth Part: Of the Days of Abiding
- The Fifth Part: The Tale of the Quest’s Ending
- The Sixth Part: The Days of Absence
- The Seventh Part: The Days of Returning
- 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
- British Library Additional MS. 45,324
- Manuscripts
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45,322
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45,323, printer's copy
- British Library Additional Manuscript 45,325
- Supplementary Materials, Criticism
- Bennett, Phillippa. "Rediscovering the Topography of Wonder: Morris, Iceland, and the Late Romances."JWMS 16.2-3 (2005): 38-48.
- Bennet, Phillippa, "Rejuvenating Our Sense of Wonder: The Last Romances of William Morris," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 209-228.
- 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).
- Calhoun, Blue, “`The Little Land of Abundance’: Pastoral Perspective in the Late Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, 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 16/23 (2005): 92-102.
- Hollow, John. “Deliberate Happiness: The Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick, “Introduction.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Kelvin, Norman. “The Erotic in News from Nowhere and The Well at the World’s End,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- May Morris's Remarks on the Prose Romances, May Morris, William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist, Oxford: Blackwells, 1936. [pdf]
- Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances." JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
- Oberg, Charlotte, “Motif and Theme in the Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” in Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, with an introduction by Frederick Kirchhoff, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Silver, Carole. “Myth and Ritual in the Last Romances of William Morris.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- 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.
- Talbot, Norman, "'Whilom, as tells the tale': The Language of the Prose Romances." JWMS 8 (1989): 16-25.
- 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
- BOOK ONE: The Road Unto Love
- BOOK TWO: The Road Unto Trouble
- BOOK THREE: The Road To The Well At World’s End.
- BOOK FOUR: The Road Home
- 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.
- Bennet, Phillippa, "Rejuvenating Our Sense of Wonder: The Last Romances of William Morris," William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Phillippa Bennett and Rosie Miles, Peter Lang, 2010, 209-228.
- 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).
- Calhoun, Blue, “`The Little Land of Abundance’: Pastoral Perspective in the Late Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, 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.
- Hollow, John. “Deliberate Happiness: The Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- 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).
- Kirchhoff, Frederick, “Introduction.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Morris, May, Remarks on the Prose Romances, especially The House of the Wolfings and The Well at the World's End, William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist, Oxford: Blackwells, 1936, 509-16 [Well at World's End, 514-16] . [pdf]
- Newman, Hilary. "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances."JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
- Oberg, Charlotte, “Motif and Theme in the Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” in Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, with an introduction by Frederick Kirchhoff, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Silver, Carole. “Myth and Ritual in the Last Romances of William Morris.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- 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.
- Text of The Well at the World's End
- The Sundering Flood
- Introductory Remarks
- Helen A. Timo, “‘An Icelandic Tale Re-Told’: William Morris's Sundering Flood” , Journal of William Morris Studies 7.1 (1986), 12-16; Jon Thoroddson, Lad and Lass: A Story of Life in Iceland, trans. by Arthur M. Reeves (London: Sampson, Lowe, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890).
- 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
- British Library Add. MS, 45,326
- Rough copy of Morris's last romance, BL Add. MS 45,326 transcription
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in The Sundering Flood," in "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard University, 1940, 376-82.
- 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).
- Hollow, John. “Deliberate Happiness: The Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Kelvin, Norman. “The Erotic in News from Nowhere and The Well at the World’s End,” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Kirchhoff, Frederick, “Introduction.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Morris and Traditional Storytelling." John Purkis, JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 16-18.
- Oberg, Charlotte, “Motif and Theme in the Late Prose Romances of William Morris,” in Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, with an introduction by Frederick Kirchhoff, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Purkis, John. "Morris and Traditional Storytelling."JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 16-18.
- Silver, Carole. “Myth and Ritual in the Last Romances of William Morris.” Studies in the Late Romances of William Morris, New York: William Morris Society, 1976.
- Timo, Helen. "'An Icelandic Tale Re-Told': William Morris's Sundering Flood." JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 12-16.
- "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.
- Introductory Remarks
-
DRAMATIC WORKS
- The Tables Turned, edited by Pamela Bracken
- Edited by Pamela Bracken Weins
- Introduction
- Text
- The Tables Turned, Ohio University Press, 1994
- The Tables Turned. London: Socialist League Offices, 1887. [pdf]
- Huntington Library Manuscripts HM577, HM6433
- The Tables Turned, performed by the New Factory, The Coach House, Hammersmith, 2 May, 2010, William Morris Society [mp3]
- Commonweal text
- JOURNALS/ESSAYS
- Diaries and Essays
- Icelandic Journals, edited by Gary Aho with photographs by Martin Stott
- Socialist Diary 1887,edited by Florence S. Boos--link to Marxists.org
- "Socialist Diary," History Workshop 13 (1982): 1-75 [pdf]
- Socialist Diary British Library Additional Manuscript 45,335
- Hopes and Fears for Art, 1882
- Signs of Change: Lectures on Socialism,1888
- Morris, William and E. Belfort Bax, Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome, London: Swan Sonnenshein, 1896, co-authored with E. Belfort Bax; also available from Archive.org [see portal]
- revised with preface and introduction from "Socialism from the Root Up" Commonweal 1886-1888, from the Marxists Archive; pdf's of originals are here.
- Other Published Morris Essays and Co-Authored Treatise
- "The Early Literature of the North--Iceland," in Unpublished Lectures of William Morris, ed. Eugene LeMire - [pdf]
- Morris, William, “From the Archive: William Morris’s ‘Communism—i. e. Property: A Partly Unpublished Essay,” edited by Florence Boos, William Morris Society U. S. Newsletter, Summer 2009, 16-21.
- Morris, William, Gothic Architecture
- Morris, William. "How I Became a Socialist," 1896. Also Andreas Scheu.
- Morris, William, manuscript notes, c. 1876, "The Mythology and Religion of the North," William Morris Gallery J149.
- Morris, William. "'‘Socialism’ and ‘What We Have to Look For’: Two Unpublished Morris Essays,” edited, Journal of William Morris Studies, 19.1 (Winter 2010): 18-56.
- Morris, William, Useful Work versus Useless Toil, London: Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893 [pdf]
- Morris, William. “William Morris’s ‘Commercial War’: A Critical Edition,” edited by Florence Boos, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, no. 19 (winter 2010): 45-65.
- Morris, William and E. Belfort Bax, Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome, London: Swan Sonnenshein, 1896, co-authored with E. Belfort Bax; also available from Archive.org
- revised from with preface and introduction from "Socialism from the Root Up" Commonweal 1886-1888, from the Marxists Archive; pdf's of originals are here.
- Morris, William, and Paul Meier. "An Unpublished Lecture of William Morris: 'How Shall We Live Then?'", International Review of Social History, (1971). See also International Institute of Social History MS. below.
- Morris, William. "William Morris's 'Equality': A Critical Edition," Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 22(Fall 2015): 9-28.
- Manuscript Essays by Morris on Socialism, Architecture, and the Environment
- "Address at the Delivery of Prizes," Harry Ransom Library, Austin, Texas, MS. file (Morris, W.), Works
- "Address Made on Behalf of the Work of the S. P. A. B.," Huntington Library, HM 6449
- "The Art of the People," Huntington Library, (incomplete), HM6432
- "As to Bribing Excellence," International Institute of Social History MS, Amsterdam. Published in Liberty, May 1895.
- Early political essay, Cheltenham Library [pdf of images] [transcription]
- Early politcal essay 2, Cheltenham Library [pdf of images] [transcription]
- Essays on Art and History, British Library Additional Manuscript 45,332
- Essays on Socialism, British Library Additional Manuscript 45,333
- Essays on Socialism, British Library Additional Manuscript 45,334
- "Socialism Up to Date," B. L. Add. MS. 45,334.
- Socialist Diary, British Library Additional Manuscript 45,335
- Fragment of speech on behalf of Socialist League describing socialism in England, given at international conference of socialists, Inv. nr. 611_4, ARCH00496, International Institute of Socialist History, Amsterdam.
- "Gothic Architecture," Harry Ransom Library, MS. file (Morris, W.) Hanley II B
- "Gothic Architecture," British Library Manuscript, B.L. Add. MS. 45,332(9), British Library, Additional MS 45,332(9)
- "Hopes and Fears for Art," MS Vault Shelves Morris; contains "The Art of the People," "The Beauty of Life," "Making the Best of It," "The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization," Beinecke Library, Yale University
- "How Shall We Live Then," International Institute of Social History MS, Amsterdam.
- "Lecture Delivered to the National Association for the Advancement of Art," Harry Ransom Library, MS. file (Morris, W.), Works
- "Makeshift," Bodleian MS. Eng. misc. Don. e. 29
- "The Mythology and Religion of the North," Morris's manuscript notes, c. 1876, William Morris Gallery J149.
- "An Old Fable Retold," John Burns Collection, British Library Ms. 46289. Photograph courtesy of Frank C. Sharp.
- "On the Artistic Qualities of Woodcut Books," Huntington Library, HM 6431
- "Our Representatives," Private Collection, Imaage Courtesy of Greg Vigers.
- "Petition regarding the Baptistry at Ravenna," Huntington Library, HM 6455
- "Regarding the Opinion of the S. P. A. B. on the Restoration of St. Mark's, Venice," Huntington Library, HM6459
- "The Relations of Art to Labour," Beinecke Library, MS Vault Shelves Morris, 1598
- Socialist Diary, British Library Additional Manuscript 45,335
- Speech Delivered to the First Meeting of the SPAB, Society of Antiquaries, SoA 832
- Speech on Free Trade, Bodleian Eng. misc. c. 143
- Speech Delivered to the First Meeting of the SPAB, Society of Antiquaries, SoA 832, ff. 1-23; misc. pages plus ff. 1-12 SPAB draft of opening statement, beginnning, "A Society coming before the public. . . "; with 1st Annual Report, later printed, a good draft with cross-outs
- "Some Thoughts on the Ornamented Manuscripts of the Middle Ages," Huntington Library, HM 6440
- "True and False Society," Huntington Library, HM 6420
- "To the Working People of Great Britain and Ireland," Huntington Library, HM 6464
- "Town and Country," courtesy of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
- Images
- Transcription
- "Under an Elm-Tree: Thoughts in the Countryside," Cheltenham Public Library, Z4, ff. 1-5 [pdf of images]
- "[Concerning] Westminster Abbey," Beinecke Library, MS Vault Shelves Morris
- Westminster Abbey Leaflet-Courtesy of the Berg Collection, New York Public Library [pdf of images]
- "What is to Happen Next?" Beinecke Library, MS. Sheries II. Writings
- "Why I Am a Communist," International Institute of Social History MS, Amsterdam.
- Letter from Charles Rowley describing Morris's lectures to the Ancoats Brotherhood, B. L. MS. 45,347, ff. 93-99.
- Supplementary
- Socialist League Archives, International Institute of Social Research, Amsterdam
- LeMire, Eugene D. "A Bibliographical Checklist of Morris's Speeches and Lectures," The Unpublished Lectures of William Morris, 291-322.
- 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
- Published version, Collected Works of William Morris, vol. 8, 1911
- 1873 Journey to Iceland
- Images, Icelandic Journal for 1873, Collected Works, vol. 8, 1911 (pdf images)
(pdf images)
- Images, Icelandic Journal for 1873, Collected Works, vol. 8, 1911 (pdf images)
- Other Supplementary Materials:
- Headnote
- lllustrations
- Maps
- "Morris's Journey to Iceland 1871," The Collected Works of William Morris, v. VIII, p. 252.
- "Morris's Journey to Iceland 1873," The Collected Works of William Morris, v. VIII, p.129, Longman's Green & Company, 1911.
- Detail of 1873 Map
- Map of the Country of the Ere-Dweller's Story
- Map of Iceland
- List of Persons Mentioned
- List of Places Mentioned
- The Icelandic Jaunt: A Study of the Expeditions Made by William Morris to Iceland in 1871 and 1873. John Purkis, William Morris Society, 1991. [pdf]
- 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.
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in the Work of William Morris." Diss. Harvard University, 1940. Icelandic trip, 196-202
- 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.
- Ellison, Ruth. "Icelandic Obituaries of William Morris." JWMS 8.1 (Autumn 1988): 35-41.
- Ellison, Ruth. "The Saga of Jón Jónsson Saddlesmith of Lithend-cot." JWMS 10.1 (Autumn 1992): 21-30.
- Gíslason, Örn, "With May Morris in Iceland." William Morris Society Newsletter-US, January 2014.
- Harris, Richard L. "William Morris, Eirikur Magnusson, and Iceland: A Survey of Correspondence." Victorian Poetry 13.3 and 4 (Fall-Winter 1975), 119-130
- Jonsdottir, Gudrun. "May Morris and Miss Lobb in Iceland." JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 17-20.
- Madsen, St. Tschudi. "Morris and Munthe."Journal of William Morris Studies 1.4(1964): 34-40.
- Meredith, Emily, "Iceland and William Morris: In Search of the Whole," After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris's Sigurd the Volsung, Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania: William Morris Society in the United States, 1977.
- 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 Dagbækur Úr Íslandsferðum
- 1871 Journey to Iceland
- Gothic Architecture
- Images of the Kelmscott Press Edition 1893
- Text (1889)
- Images, British Library Manuscript
- Transcription, B. L. Add. MS. 45,332(9)
- Supplementary Materials:
- Headnote, Florence S. Boos
- Text of Morris's preface to the Kelmscott Press edition of The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, 1892.
- Ruskin, John. The Nature of Gothic, Kelmscott Press Edition, 1892.
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Purkis, John, Morris, Burne-Jones and French Gothic, London: William Morris Society, 1985, 1991.
- Essays By Morris:
- "Art and Industry in the Fourteenth Century, " in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 90-105. Unpublished in Morris's lifetime; included in Collected Works, ed. My Morris, vol. 22. [pdf]
- "Early England," in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 51-70. Unpublished in Morris's lifetime; included in Eugene Le Mire, ed., Unpublished Lectures of William Morris, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969.
- "Feudal England," in Nicholas Salmon, ed., Morris on History, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996, 71-89. FromCommonweal, 20 August-10 September 1887. [pdf]
- "The Gothic Revival, I," in Eugene Le Mire, Unpublished Lectures of Wiliam Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969, 74-93. From B. L. Ms. 45,331(10). Delivered March 3, 1884 to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
- "The Gothic Revival, II," in Eugene Le Mire, Unpublished Lectures of Wiliam Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969, 74-93. From B. L. Ms. 45,331(1). Delivered March 10, 1884 to the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
- TRANSLATIONS (portal)
- OLD FRENCH, OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH, CLASSICAL GREEK AND LATIN, OLD ICELANDIC
- OLD FRENCH
- The Ordination of Knighthood,edited by Yuri Cowan
- Edition text
-
Images of Kelmscott Edition, The Order of Chivalry [This volume contains three texts, The Order of Chivalry, L’Ordène de Chevalerie and The Ordination of Knighthood], London: Kelmscott Press, 1892-93
- Ellis note
- Kelmscott 1892-93 images
- Huntington mss. images
- Supplementary materials
- Headnote
- Variants
- Criticism
- Old French Romances, edited by Peter Faulkner
- Introduction
- Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
- The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane
- The Tale of Emporer Coustans and of Over Sea
- Glossary
- Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
- Introduction
- Text, "Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile"
- Kelmscott Press Edition, 1894.
- Included in Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, London: George Allen & Co., 1896; 1914. This book consists of the four Romances published at the Kelmscott Press.
- Autograph draft of "Amis and Amile," MS 362 BD, courtesy of Special Collections, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Source, L.Moland and C. D’Hericault, editors, Nouvelles françaises en prose du xiii ième siècle, Paris: Janet, 1856.
- Collected Works, ed. May Morris, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910-1915, Vol. 17, Old French Romances
- Supplementary Materials: Reviews, Criticism and Glossary
- Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Old French." JWMS 15.1 (Winter 2002): 43-50. This article provides a clear introduction to the Romances.
- Jacobs, Joseph. Introduction to Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. London: George Allen & Co., 1896; 1914, pp. v-xi.
- May Morris, Introduction to Vol. XVII of The Collected Works of William Morris, edited by May Morris, Longmans, Green and Co., 1910-15, Vol. XVII, xli-ii.
- Peterson, William S. A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984; 1985, pp. 62-3.
- Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896, 62, 88-89. This is a review of Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, London: George Allen & Co., 1896, which contains all four Romances published in the three Kelmscott Press books.
- Walter Pater, ‘Two Early French Stories’ in Studies in the History of the Renaissance, 1873; as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, London: Macmillan and Co., 1893, pp.1-30; dated 1872.
- The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane
- Introduction
- Text, "The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane"
- Kelmscott Press, London, 1893.
- Included in Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, London: George Allen & Co., 1896; 1914. This book consists of the four Romances published at the Kelmscott Press.
- Source, L.Moland and C. D’Hericault, editors, Nouvelles françaises en prose du xiii ième siècle, Paris: Janet, 1856.
- Collected Works, ed. May Morris, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910-1915, Vol. 17, Old French Romances
- Supplementary Materials: Reviews, Criticism, and Glossary
- Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Old French." JWMS 15.1 (Winter 2002): 43-50.This article provides a clear introduction to the Romances.
- Jacobs, Joseph. Introduction to Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. London: George Allen & Co., 1896; 1914, pp. v-xi.
- Morris, May. Introduction to Vol. XVII of The Collected Works of William Morris, edited by May Morris, Longmans, Green and Co., 1910-15, Vol. XVII, xli-ii.
- Peterson, William S. A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984; 1985, pp. 56-8.
- Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896, 62, 88-89.This is a review of Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, London: George Allen & Co., 1896, which contains all four Romances published in the three Kelmscott Press books.
- The Story of King Coustans and of Over Sea
- Introduction
- Text, "The Story of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea"
- Kelmscott Edition, London, 1894.
- Included in Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, London: George Allen & Co., 1896; 1914. This book consists of the four Romances published at the Kelmscott Press.
- Source, L.Moland and C. D’Hericault, editors, Nouvelles françaises en prose du xiii ième siècle, Paris: Janet, 1856.
- Collected Works, ed. May Morris, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910-1915, Vol. 17, Old French Romances
- Supplementary Materials: Reviews, Criticism, and Glossary
- Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Old French." JWMS 15.1 (Winter 2002): 43-50. This article provides a clear introduction to the Romances.
- Jacobs, Joseph. Introduction to Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. London: George Allen & Co., 1896; 1914, pp. v-xi.
- Morris, May. Introduction to Vol. XVII of The Collected Works of William Morris, edited by May Morris, Longmans, Green and Co., 1910-15, Vol. XVII, 1913, xli-ii.
- Peterson, William. S. A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984; 1985, pp. 69-71.
- Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896, 62, 88-89. This is a review of Old French Romances. Done into English by William Morris. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, London: George Allen & Co., 1896, which contains all four Romances published in the three Kelmscott Press books.
- Lancelot of the Lake
- Introduction by Roger Simpson
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- Unpublished manuscript, translated by William Morris, c.1870-73
- Society of Antiquaries MS 905.1 and 905.2, c. 1870-73
- Society of Antiquaries MS. 905.3 calligraphic manuscript, vol. 3 (fols. 1-307)
- Society of Antiquaries MS. 905.4, c. 1870-73, calligraphic manuscript, vol. 1 (fair copy of fols. 1-76 of 905.1 with minor rewordings)
- 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:
- Faulkner, Peter. "Morris and Old French." JWMS 15.1 (Winter 2002): 43-50.
- Tristram
- B. L. MS. 45,329, ff. ii + 99
- About 1870, unfinished; in May Morris's hand, "Manuscript of the date of The Earthly Paradise"
- Transcription, B. L. MS. 45,329
- Supplementary Materials:
- The Ordination of Knighthood,edited by Yuri Cowan
- OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH
- 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
- Draft, Morgan Library Manuscript MA 312
- Supplementary Materials:
- Headnote
- Criticism
- Jones, Chris. "The Reception of William Morris's Beowulf, " in Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris, ed. David Latham, Toronto: University of Toronto, 197-208.
- Hulme, W.H., Review of The Tale of Beowulf, Modern Language Notes, 15.1 (January 1900): 22-26. [pdf]
- Morris, May, passage from "Morris as a Writer: The Influence of the North," William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist.
- Tilling, P[hilip] 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.
- Watts, Theodore. Rev. Beowulf. Athenaeum, 10 August, 1895, 181-82. ReprintedWilliam Morris: The Critical Heritage. Ed. Peter Faulkner. London: Routledge, 1973, 385-87.
- Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, edited by Paul Annis
- Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair, (1895) Text
- Kelmscott Edition Vol. I images
- Kelmscott Edition Vol. II images
- Draft, Huntington Library Manuscript HM6419
- Transcription, Huntington Library Manuscript HM6419
- Supplementary materials
- Doroholschi, Claudia. "Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair: Medievalism and Anti-Naturalism of the 1890s." British and American Studies BAS 14, 2008, 129-37.
- 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).
- Beowulf
- CLASSICAL GREEK AND LATIN
- The Odyssey
- Edited by Nathanael Gilbert
- Text, The Odyssey
- The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse. London: Reeves & Turner, 1887.
- Manuscript draft, Harry Ransom Library, Texas
- Transcription, draft Harry Ransom Library, Texas
- Manuscript Huntington Library HM6448 (fair copy).
- Supplementary Materials:
- Buchhorn, Wilhelm. William Morris' Odyssee-Übersetzung. Köningsberg, 1910.
- De Vega, Sean. "Archaisms and Compounds in Book 6 of Morris's Translation of the Odyssey" [pdf]
- 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]
- The Aeneid
- Introduction by Sean de Vega
- Text, The Aeneids of Virgil
- The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English, London: Ellis and White, 1876.
- Huntington Library Manuscript, HM6439
- British Library Additional Manuscript, 45,311
- Society of Antiquaries, calligraphic trial, Book I, lines 34-89, f. 1 and 1v.
- Morgan Library, Burne-Jones drawings for a projected edition of The Aeneids
- Supplementary Materials
- Cox Brinton, Anna. A Pre-Raphaelite Aeneid of Virgil in the collection of Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny of Los Angeles: being an essay in honor of the William Morris centenary, 1934.
- Fitzwilliam Museum. Burne-Jones and William Morris: Designs for the Aeneid and the Kelmscott Chaucer. Fitzwilliam Museum, 1996. [pdf]
- Illustrations
- List of drawings held in the Fitzwilliam Museum: "The Hill of Venus" and the Aeneid
- Mickelsson, Ulla. "Virgil's Aeneid: The Culminating Achievement of William Morris's Illumination Work," Libri: International Library Review, vol. 29, 1979, 260-270. [pdf]
- Mitchell, Jack."William Morris's Synthetic Aeneids: Virgil as Physical Object," Translation and Literature 24.1, pages 1-22.
- Nettleship, Henry, review, Academy, November 1875, x, 493-4. [pdf]
- Unsigned Review, Athenaeum, 13 November 1875, no. 2507, 635-7. [pdf]
- Unsigned Review, The Catholic World, September 1877, 721-34. [pdf]
- The Iliad--link to edition by William Whitla, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 1974
- A Reader's Apparatus of Morris's Translation of the Aeneid by Sean de Vega
- The Odyssey
- OLD ICELANDIC
- Morris and Old Norse
- Introduction and Critical Material
- Introduction: "Morris and the Sagas" by Marjorie Burns
- Influence of Scandinavian Literature on Morris's Writings, Icelandic Translations
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris."
Diss., Harvard University, 1940. ~ Scan of accessible pdf files. - Chapter IV: Morris's Style of Translation
- Barribeau, James Leigh. "William Morris and Saga-Translation: 'The Story of Magnus the Son of Erling'," The Vikings, ed. R. T. Farrell, London: Phillimore, 1982.[pdf]
- Durrenberger, Paul and Dorothy Durrenberger. The Saga of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue, with an Essay on the Structure and Translation of the Poems. London: Associated University Presses, 1992.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "Contributions of the Old Norse Language and Literature to the Style and Substance of the Writings of William Morris, 1856-76."Diss., University of Michigan, 1933. - Scan of accessible pdf files.
- Part I: THE MATERIALS FOR STUDY
- Chapter 1.1: Classification of Documents 1-19 [pdf]
- Chapter 1.2 History of William Morris's Old Norse Study 20-58 [pdf]
- Chapter 1.3: Morris's Appreciation and Criticism of Old Norse Literature 59-88 [pdf]
- Part II: CONTRIBUTIONS OF OLD NORSE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TO MORRIS"S STYLE
- Chapter 2.1: The Language of Translation 89-167 [pdf]
- Chapter 2.2 Old Norse Allusions in the Poems 168--197 [pdf]
- Part III: CONTRIBUTIONS OF OLD NORSE LITERATURE TO THE SUBSTANCE OF MORRIS'S POETRY
- Chapter 3.1 Introduction 198-201 [pdf]
- Chapter 3.2 Tthe Wooing of Hallbiorn the Strong 202-209 [pdf]
- Chapter 3.3 The Wooing of Swanhild 210-228 [pdf]
- Chapter 3.4 The Fostering of Aslaug 229-244 [pdf]
- Chapter 3.5 The Lovers of Gudrun 245-275 [pdf]
- Chapter 3.6 Sigurd the Volsung 276-326
- Part IV: CONCLUSIONS 327-344 [pdf]
- APPENDICES
- A. Morris's Scandinavian Library 345-354 [pdf]
- B. The Scansion of Morris's Eddic Translations 355-382 [pdf]
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 389-400 [pdf]
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and Scandinavian Literature: A Bibiographical Essay." Scandinavian Studies and Notes, January 1, 1933, 93-105.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the Heimskringla." Scandinavian Studies and Notes 14.3 (1936), 33-39.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "William Morris and the 'Literary' Tradition." Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review 53 (1946), 48-55.
- Morris, May, "Morris as a Writer: The Influence of the North," in Artist, Writer, Socialist.
- Morris, William. "The Early Literature of the North--Iceland," The Unpublished Lectures of William Morris. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1969.
- Morris, William. "The Mythology and Religion of the North," WMG MS. J146, c. 1876. Formerly in possession of Georgiana Burne-Jones and presented to the William Morris Gallery by Margaret Mackail.
- Swannell, J. N. William Morris and Old Norse Literature. London: William Morris Society, 1961. [pdf]
- Sveinsson "The Value of Icelandic Sagas," Saga Book
- Part I: THE MATERIALS FOR STUDY
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris."
- Icelandic-related Materials: Criticism, Icelandic Diaries, Illuminated Norse Manuscripts
- 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.
- Anonymous, "Mr. William Morris on Iceland." Pall Mall Gazette, October 10, 1887, p. 13-14.
- Barribeau, James Leigh. "William Morris and Saga-Translation: 'The Story of Magnus the Son of Erling'," The Vikings, ed. R. T. Farrell, London: Phillimore, 1982. [pdf]
- Calder, Grace J. and Alfred Fairbank. The Story of Kormak the Son of Ogmund, by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, with an Introduction by Grace J. Calder and a Note on the manuscript work of William Morris by Alfred Fairbank. William Morris Society, 1970.Appendices: "A Note on Drottkvaett," pp. 47-51; "A Note on the Manuscript Work of William Morris," Alfred Fairbank, 53-64; "An Annotated List of the Manuscript Work of William Morris," Alfred Fairbank, 65-69. In addition to topics related to Kormak, Calder's introduction considers "The Critical Reception of Morris's Translations," "Iceland in the Tenth Century," "The Art of the Saga," and the nature of the Icelandic "Drottkvaett."
- Durrenberger, E. Paul and Dorothy Durrenberger. The Saga of Gunnlaugs Snake-Tongue, with an Essay on the Structure and Translation of the Poem. London: Associated University Presses, 1992. Einarsson, Stefan. "Eirikr Magnusson and His Saga Translations." Scandinavian Studies 13 (1933-35), 17-32.
- Ellison, Ruth C. "'The Undying Glory of Dreams': William Morris and 'The Northland of Old,'" Victorian Poetry, ed. M. Bradbury and D. Palmer. London: E. Arnold, 1972, 138-75.
- Fairbank, Alfred. "A Note on the Manuscript Work of William Morris," and "An Annotated List of the Manuscript Work of William Morris." See Calder, above.
- Glauser, Jürg. "The End of the Saga: Text, Tradition and Transmission in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Iceland." Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga, ed. Andrew Wawn. Middlesex: Hisarlik Press, 1994, 101-42.
- Harris, Richard. "William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson and Iceland: A Survey of Correspondence," Victorian Poetry 13 (1975), 119-30.
- Litzenberg, Karl. "The Diction of William Morris." Archive for Nordisk Fiologi 53 (1937), 327-63.
- Powell, George E. J. and Eirikr Magnusson, trans., Icelandic Legends. Collected by Jon Arnason. London: Bentley, 1864; 2nd series: Longman and Green, 1866.
- Purkis, John. "William Morris: His Dream of 'The Northland'". Heritage and Identity:Shaping the Nations of the North.Papers presented at the 2001 Heritage Convention. Shaftesbury: Donhead, 2002, 85-98.
- Quirk, Randolph. "Dasent, William Morris, and Problems of Translation." Saga Book 14 (1953), 64-77.
- Swannell, J. N. "William Morris as an Interpreter of Old Norse," Saga Book 15 (1961), 365-82.
- Wawn, Andrew. "The Cult of 'Stalwart Frith-thjof' in Victorian Britain," Northern Antiquity: The Post Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga. Middlesex: Hisarlike Press, 1994, 211-54.
- Wawn, Andrew. "The Spirit of 1892: Sagas, Saga-Steads and Victorian Philology." Saga Book 23 (1993), 213-52.
- 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.
- Whitla, William. "'Sympathetic Translation' and the 'Scribe's Capacity': Morris's Calligraphy and the Icelandic Sagas." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 10 (Fall 2001): 27-108. See Appendix A: "William Morris's Calligraphic Manuscripts," 80-94, which details the locations and features of Morris's illuminated manuscripts of his Icelandic translations, and Appendix B: "The Old Norse Translations of William Morris and Related Materials."
- The Story of Grettir the Strong
- Introduction by Marjorie Burns
- 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.
- British Library MS. Add. 45,318 images, f. 91 Sonnets of Grettir
- Draft for Grettir translation, in Eirikr Magnusson's hand with corrections by Morris, Courtesy of the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (the Wilson).
- Ms. for printer, Fitzwilliam Library, 1869, 25F, with many renumberings and some corrections; chapters 89-90, ff. 17-20 and chapter 92, f. 27 are near calligraphic. Donated in 1905.
- Supplementary Materials:
- Text of Grettis saga, Icelandic Saga Database
- May Morris, remarks in introduction to Collected Works, Vol. VII,Grettir the Strong
- Anderson, Karl. "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard, 1940. Grettissaga, pp. 926-941.
- Volsunga Saga
- Introduction by Marjorie Burns
- 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: Walter Scott Press, 1888. Text.
- 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. Images.
- Supplementary Materials:
- Anderson, Karl. From Chapter 1, "The Beginning of Morris's Interest in the History and Literature of Early Scandinavia: 1834-1870," "Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris." Diss. Harvard, 1940. "The Volsunga Saga," pp. 110-19.
- Anonymous review, Athenæum. 11 June 1870, no.2224, 763-64.
- Anonymous reviewer. Old and New, July-December 1870, 364-67.[pdf]
- Kennedy, John. "English Translations of the Volsunga Saga." In Northern Antiquity: The Post Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga," ed. Andrew Wawn. Middlesex: Hisarlik Press, 1994, 285-304.
- Morris, William, Letter to Charles Norton, 21 December, 1869; to Algernon Swinburne, 21 December, 1869, from Norman Kelvin, ed., The Collected Letters of William Morris, vol. 1, 1984.[pdf]
- Simcox, G.A. Academy. 13 August, 1870, 278-9. [pdf]
- 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- Aho, Gary, Intro. Three Northern Love Stories and Other Tales. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996.
- Egil's Saga
- Introduction
- Calligraphic Manuscript, Society of Antiquaries, M. S. 907
- Transcription of Calligrahic Manuscript
- Alternate version of Egilssaga, in May Morris, ed., William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist, 1936, vol. 1. pdf.
- Supplementary Materials
- Introduction
- Tale of Haldor
- Unfinished Calligraphic Manuscript
- Supplementary materials
- The Story of the Ere-Dwellers
- The Story of Erbyggja Saga
- Introduction to The Story of the Ere-Dwellers and The Story of the Heath-Slayings by Marjorie Burns
- Preface by William Morris and Eírikr Magnússon, pdf format
- Saga Library text The Story of the Ere-Dwellers, pdf format
- Saga Library text The Story of the Heath-Slayings, pdf format
- Story of Olaf the Holy images of Leeds Library Manuscript, photographed by Ian Felce, pdf format
- Supplementary
- Anderson, Karl. Scandinavian Elements in the Works of William Morris, diss. Harvard University 1940, pp.885-925. [pdf]
- Eyrbyggja Saga, manuscript compared with 1892 version: pp.885-925, 949-55;
Grettissaga, pp.926-41;
Style of Morris's illuminated mss., pp.942-91;
Prologue to Heimskringla, 956-66;
Haralds saga, pp.967-76;
Howard the Halt, pp.977-91;
Old Icelandic usages in Morris's poetry, pp. 993-98;
Scandinavian works in Morris's library, pp. 999-1010 - Einarsson, Stefan. "Eirikr Magnusson and His Saga Translations." Scandinavain Studies 13 (1933-35), 17-32.
- Hollander, Lee M., "The Structure of Eyrbyggja Saga." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology,vol. 58, no.2, (April 1959), 222-2. [pdf]
- McCreesh, Bernadine, "Structural Patterns in the Eyrbyggja Saga and Other Sagas of the Conversion." Medieval Scaninavia, vol. 11, (1978-79), 271-80.
- Introduction to The Story of the Ere-Dwellers and The Story of the Heath-Slayings by Marjorie Burns
- The Story of Erbyggja Saga
- The Story of Kormak
- The Story of Kormak the Son of Ogmund, William Morris Society, 1970
- Manuscript, The Story of Kormak Son of Ogmund, Morgan Library MA 1804
- The Saga Library--
- The Story of the Men of Weaponfirth (unpublished fragment)
- Fair copy in 'Italian' script, titled in red ink, "The Story of the Men of Weaponfirth/ Chap 1: Brodd Helgi slayeth Swart." Cheltenham Library and Wilson Art Gallery, Y7, ff. 1-18, calligraphic ms. both sides. [pdf]
- See also Icelandic Diaries, with phtographs of places Morris saw during his visits to Iceland.
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List of Translations
- British Library Add. MS 45,318
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