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CRITICISM
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.
Bennett, Phillippa, "Conclusion: The Presentation of Wonder." in
Wonderlands: The Last Romances of William Morris.
Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
Bennett, Philllippa. "Riot, Romance and Revolution: William Morris and the Art of War,"
JWMS
18.3 (2009), 22-35.
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.
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.
Çelikkol, Ayşe. “The Planetary in Morris’s Late Romances.”
JWMS
22.4 (Summer 2018): 15-30.
Cooper, Jane S. "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances."
JWMS
5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
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].
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.
Prose Romances
Early Prose Romances
Supplementary Materials on the Early Prose Romances
The House of the Wolfings
Text of the House of Wolfings
Supplementary Materials on The House of the Wolfings
The Roots of the Mountains
Text of The Roots of the Mountains
Supplementary Materials on The Roots of the Mountains
A Dream of John Ball
Text of A Dream of John Ball
Supplementary Materials on A Dream of John Ball
A King's Lesson
News from Nowhere
Text of News from Nowhere
Map of News from Nowhere with Text and Notes
Supplementary Materials on News from Nowhere
Illustrated Edition
Chapter I.
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII.
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Sources
The Story of the Glittering Plain
Text of The Glittering Plain
Supplementary Materials on The Glittering Plain
The Wood Beyond the World
Text of The Wood Beyond the World
Supplementary Materials on The Wood Beyond the Wrold
The Well at the World's End
Text of The Well at the World's End
Supplementary Materials to The Well at the World's End
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Text of The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Supplementary Materials on The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The Sundering Flood
Text of The Sundering Flood
Supplementary Materials on The Sundering Flood
The Novel on Blue Paper
Text of The Novel on Blue Paper
Unfinished Romances