FEATURED EDITION
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems:
OTHER EDITIONS
MANUSCRIPTS
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. Latham, David. "'Making Pictures': Morris's Pre-Raphaelite Poetics and Its Reception." In The Routledge Companion to William Morris . Ed. Florence S. Boos. London: Routledge, 2021. 278-301. 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. Ward, Megan. "William Morris's Conditional Moment." RaVon: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Summer 2009).
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"