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Recent Criticism to The Defence of Guenevere
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.
Frith, 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, Carole
. 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.
Ward, Megan. "William Morris's Conditional Moment."
RaVon: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
(Summer 2009).