Author:William Morris

William Morris
(1834–1896)

William Morris

Works

• Early romances of William Morris in prose and verse, 1907 (external scan)
• Stories from Morris, 1907 (external scan)
• The collected works of William Morris; with introductions by his daughter May Morris, 1910

• • v. 1. The defence of Guenevere. The hollow land.
  • v. 2. The life and death of Jason.
  • v. 3-6. The earthly paradise.
  • v. 7. The story of Grettir the Strong. The story of the Volsungs and Niblungs.
  • v. 8. Journals of travel in Iceland. 1871. 1873.(external scan)
  • v. 9. Love is enough. Poems by the way.
  • v. 10. Three northern love stories. The tale of Beowulf.
  • v. 11. The Æneids of Virgil.
  • v. 12. The story of Sigurd the Volsung and the fall of the Niblungs.
  • v. 13. the Odyssey of Homer done into English verse.
  • v. 14. The house of the Wolfings. The story of the Glittering plain.
  • v. 15. The roots of the mountains.
  • v. 16. News from Nowhere. A dream of John Ball. A king's lesson.
  • v. 17. The wood beyond the world. Child Christopher. Old French romances.
  • v. 18-19. The well at the world's end.--v. 20. The water of the wondrous isles.
  • v. 21. The sundering flood. Unfinished romances.
  • v. 22. Hopes and fears for art. Lectures on art and industry.
  • v. 23. Signs of change. Lectures on socialism.
  • v. 24. Scenes from the fall of Troy and other poems and fragments

• Prose and poetry (1856-1870), 1913 (external scan)
• William Morris, 1923 (external scan)

Books

• The Hollow Land (1856)
• A Dream of John Ball, illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones (1888) (start transcription)
• The House of the Wolfings (1888) (external scan)
• The Roots of the Mountains (1890) (external scan)
• News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (1891) (transcription project)
• The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men (1891) (external scan)
• Socialism, its growth & outcome With Ernest Belfort Bax, 1893 (external scan)
• The Wood Beyond the World (1894) (external scan)
• Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (1895) (external scan)
• The Well at the World's End: A Tale (1896)
• The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897) (external scan)
• The Sundering Flood (1897) (transcription project)

Poetry

Collections

• The Poems of William Morris, 1904 (external scan)

• The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858) (external scan)
• The Life and Death of Jason (1867) (external scan)
• The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870) (external scan) (The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (part II), Project Gutenberg)
  • Atalanta's race, and other tales from The earthly paradise, 1888 (external scan)
  • The doom of King Acrisius (external scan)
• Love Is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1873) (external scan)
• The Pilgrims of Hope (1885) (external scan)
• Chants for Socialists (1885) (external scan)
• Briar Rose (1890) (external scan)
• Poems by the Way (1891) (external scan)
• Pre-Raphaelite ballads, 1900 (external scan)
• Early poems of William Morris, illustrated by Florence Harrison. New York: Dodge. 1914
  • The Defence of Guenevere; King Arthur's Tomb; Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery; The Chapel in Lyoness; Sir Peter Harpdon's End; Rapunzel; The Blue Closet; Concerning Geffray Teste Noire; A Good Knight in Prison; Golden Wings; The Eve of Crecy; Old Love; Father John's War Song; The Gilliflower of Gold; The Judgment of God; Shameful Death; The Sailing of the Sword; The Little Tower; The Wind; Spellbound; The Tune of Seven Towers; Two Red Roses Across the Moon; The Haystack in the Floods; Welland River; Riding Together; Sir Giles' War Song; Near Avalon; Praise of My Lady; Summer Dawn; In Prison.

Individual poems

• The lovers of Gudrun, 1870 (external scan)
• The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (transcription project)
• "The Defence of Guenevere"
• "The Blue Closet"
• "Masters in This Hall"
• "Minstrels and Maids"
• "Pomona"
• "Pygmalion and the Image" (external scan)

Short works: Essays, Lectures and Addresses

Works in The Commonweal

• Introductory (Volume 1, Number 1) (Feb. 1885)
• The March of the Workers (Volume 1, Number 1) (Feb. 1885)
• message from William Morris (Volume 1, Number 2) (Mar. 1885)
• The Message of the March Wind (Volume 1, Number 2) (Mar. 1885)
• The Worker's Share of Art (Volume 1, Number 3) (Apr. 1885)

Others

• The decorative arts, their relation to modern life and progress, 1878 short work (external scan)
• Labour and pleasure, versus labour and sorrow, 1880 (external scan)
• Chapter VI. The lesser arts of life in Lectures on Art (1882) (external scan)
• Hopes and Fears for Art (1882) (external scan)
• A Summary of the Principles of Socialism with Henry Mayers Hyndman, 1884
• "Textile fabrics" in The Health Exhibition Literature, 1884 (external scan)
• Art and socialism, 1884 (external scan)
• "Mural Decoration" (1884) in Encyclopaedia Brittanica (1911), vol. 17; with John Henry Middleton
• The Aims Of Art, 1887 (external scan)
• Signs of Change (1888) (external scan)
• The revolt of Ghent, 1890 (external scan)
• The soul of man under socialism, The socialist ideal art, and The coming solidarity. With Oscar Wilde, W. C. Owen, 1892 (external scan)
• Monopoly, or, How labor is robbed, 1893 (external scan)
• "Preface," "Textiles," "Printing," and "Of Dyeing as a Art" in Arts and Crafts Essays (1893) (external scan)
• Art Under Plutocracy Published in Today, 1884?, reprinted in Collected Works of William Morris (1910-1915), Volume 23 (M. Morris, Ed.). London: Longmans, Green & Co.
• Useful work versus useless toil, 1893 (external scan)
• True and false society, 1893 (external scan)
• How I became a socialist, 1896 (external scan)
• Art and the beauty of the earth, 1898 (external scan)
• An address delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham municipal school of art, 1898 (external scan)
• Some hints on pattern-designing, 1899 (external scan)
• Architecture and history, and Westminster Abbey, 1900 (external scan)
• Art and its producers, and The arts and crafts of to-day, 1901 (external scan)
• Architecture, industry & wealth; collected papers, 1902 (external scan)
• The art and craft of printing, 1902 (external scan)
• The art of the people, 1902 (external scan)
• The hollow land: and other contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1903 (external scan)
• Factory work as it is and might be, 1922 (external scan)

Editor

• The Commonweal, 1885-1889 (transcription project)
• Poems chosen out of the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1896 (external scan)

Translations

• The Story of Grettir the Strong with Eiríkr Magnússon (1869) (external scan)
• Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales with Eiríkr Magnússon (1875) (external scan)
• The Æneids of Virgil, 1876 (external scan)
• The Story of the Volsungs with Eiríkr Magnússon (1877) (start transcription)
• The Odyssey of Homer, 1887 (external scan)
• The Saga library, 1891
  • I. The story of Howard the Halt. The story of the Banded men. The story of Hen Thorir. 1891. vol 1
  • II. The story of the Ere-dwellers with the story of the Heath-slayings. 1892.
  • III-VI. Snorri Sturluson. The stories of the kings of Norway called the Round world (Heimskringia) 1893-1905. vol IV
• Of the friendship of Amis and Amile, 1894 (external scan)
• The Tale of Beowulf with A. J. Wyatt (1895), translation into modern English (external scan)
• Old French Romances, Done into English (1896) (external scan)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Mural Decoration," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Other

• Preface to Good King Wenceslas by John Mason Neale, (1904). (external scan)
• Preface to The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, 1892 (external scan)
• Preface to Medieval lore by Anglicus Bartholomaeus, 1893 (external scan)
• Foreward to Utopia by Thomas More, 1893 (external scan)

Work about Morris

• "Morris, William (10)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Morris, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Morris, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "William Morris," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• William Morris: poet, artist, socialist by Francis Watts Lee, 1891 (external scan)
• William Morris as an Exponent of Socialism, 1905
• "Morris, William (1834-1896)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• Mackail, John William (1899). The Life of William Morris. London etc.: Longmans, Green & Co. 
• Glasier, J. Bruce (1921). William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement. London etc.: Longmans, Green & Co. 
• William Morris: His Work and Influence by Arthur Clutton-Brock, 1914 (external scan)