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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [1] [2]) and Sigurd's wife Gudrun.
William Morris, News from Nowhere: Or, an Epoch of Rest (London, Kelmscott Press, 1892); Pequot Library Special Collections. In the novel, Morris tackles one of the most common criticisms of socialism: the supposed lack of incentive to work in a communist society. Morris' response is that all work should be creative and pleasurable.
The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, England, is a public museum devoted to Morris's life, work and influence. [299] [300] [301] The William Morris Society is based at Morris's final London home, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, and is an international members society, museum and venue for lectures and other Morris-related events. [302]
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His father, also named William, was briefly a naval surgeon, who later became a writer of novels and short stories, some of which his son illustrated. Gilbert's mother was the former Anne Mary Bye Morris (1812–1888), the daughter of Thomas Morris, an apothecary. [7]
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown, which God, the righteous Judge, will give me at that day. That is my testimony—write it down.—That is my testimony." [4] — Lyman Beecher, American Presbyterian minister (10 January 1863), quoting 2 Timothy 4:7-8 [99]
[48] [citation needed] Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem Cupid and Psyche (1826) illustrates an engraving of a painting by W. E. West. William Morris retold the Cupid and Psyche story in verse in The Earthly Paradise (1868–70), and a chapter in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean (1885) was a prose translation. [44]
The Fly was set to music in 1965 by Benjamin Britten as part of his song cycle Songs and Proverbs of William Blake. It appears also in the song London on the 1987 Tangerine Dream album Tyger which is inspired by poetry of Blake. John Vanderslice adapted this poem into the song "If I Live or If I Die" on his 2001 album Time Travel Is Lonely.