William Morris: A Critical Study

Of certain of the poems no more than a word need be said, whilst others need to be considered more fully. The northern poems, such as 'Gunnar's Howe' and 'Of the Wooing of Hallb...

The book need not be considered in detail in connection with Morris's socialism, for it is but a suggestion, whilst _News from Nowhere_ is an elaborate statement. But it contain...

In 1859 Morris married Miss Jane Burden, of Oxford. To a man of his profound tenderness for all the simple and rational things of life, home was a symbol of the deepest signific...

There is, however, a difficulty of another kind in this opening book. The quality of all others in the _Völsunga Saga_ that fits it for the highest poetry is its elemental human...

... a blind pathway leads Betwixt the yellow corn and whispering reeds, The home of many a shy quick-diving bird; Thereby they passed, and as they went they heard Splashing of f...

The poems of the second group, of which _The Chapel in Lyoness_ is the most notable example, have a central point in common with those of the first, but there is a mysticism in...

A few paragraphs in this book are reprinted, by permission of Messrs. George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., from introductions written for The Muses' Library; others, by permission o...

At the time of publication of the last volume of _The Earthly Paradise_, Morris had begun the study of Icelandic story that was to find its splendid culmination six years later...

In the Long Vacation of 1875 Rossetti conceived the ill-fated scheme of mural paintings for the new hall of the Oxford Union. The story need not be told here in any detail. Morr...

Tennyson had established his reputation with the issue of the two volumes of "Poems" in 1842. Since then he had published "The Princess" in 1847, and "In Memoriam" in 1850, and...

That such a poet should come was in itself not remarkable, but that he should come at such a moment was a phenomenon scarcely to be paralleled in literature. The current traditi...