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The Earthly Paradise by William Morris is an epic poem. It is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from Greece and Scandinavia. Publication began in 1868 and several later volumes followed until 1870. The volumes were published by F.S. Ellis. [1]
Sonnets and Lyrical Poems, D.G. Rossetti. The Poems of John Keats, ed. F.S. Ellis. Atlanta in Calydon: A Tragedy, A.C. Swinburne. The Tale of the Emperor of Coustans and of Over the Sea, translated from Old French by Morris. The Wood Beyond the World. The Book of Wisdom and Lies, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, trans. Oliver Wardrop
The poem succeeds because of its narrative pace, rather than ostentatiously-crafted language. It was one of the poems from Morris' early romantic period which were brought to the fore by historian E. P. Thompson (himself a published poet) in his 1955 biography of Morris. [ 2 ]
The Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse on Archive.org contains all the stories. Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) on Librivox.org is a public domain audiobook of the stories. Golden Wings and Other Stories title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
William Morris, self-portrait of 1856 "Masters in This Hall" (alternative title: "Nowell, Sing We Clear") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols.
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.
John William Mackail OM FBA (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system.. He is most often remembered as a scholar of Virgil and as the official biographer of the socialist artist William Morris, of whom he was a friend.
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