William Morris Archive

Source Notes to Introduction for Defence of Guenevere

  1. "Roman Renaissance," Stones of Venice, III, in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, XI, ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander  Wedderburn, Library Edition (London: George Allen, 1903), p. 66.

  2. Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan Company, 1961), p. 60.

  3. The Pound Era (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971), p. 174.

  4. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press: Together with a Short Description of the Press by S. C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898), p. 3.

  5. Erotic Murders: Structural and Rhetorical Irony in William Morris' Froissart Poems," Victorian Poetry, 3-4 (1975), 17-19.

  6. Dahl, Curtis. "Morris's 'The Chapel in Lyoness': An Interpretation,"Studies in Philology, 51 (1954), 482-491.

  7. E. D. H. Johnson in The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952) provides the classic statement of this assumption of social responsibility.

  8. The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (New York: Macmillan Company, 1953), p. 70.

  9. Essays and Introductions, p. 519.

  10. W. B. Yeats, John Eglinton, AE, and W. Larminie, Literary Ideals in Ireland (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899), p. 36.

  11. "Mr. Rhys' Welsh Ballads," Bookman, 14 (August 27, 1899), 14-15.

  12. See Dorothy M. Hoare's The Works of Morris and Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Toronto: Macmillan, 1937) for a detailed comparison of Yeats and Morris' treatment of legend.

  13. The Identity of Yeats (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 72.

  14. The Spirit of Romance (New York: New Directions, 1953), p. 222.

  15. Literary Essays of Ezra Pound (New York: New Directions, 1954, p. 12.

  16. N. Christoph de Nagy's The Poetry of Ezra Pound: The Pre-Imagist Stage, Cooper Monographs on English and American Language and Literature (Bern: Francke, 1960) specifies which early Pound poems hark back to Morris.

  17. "Of Modern Landscape" in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, V, p. 333.