William Morris — Literary Works: A Selected List

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[Project Gutenberg has two dozen book-length works in prose and poetry. VW = E-text in the Victorian Web.]

Poetry

• The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858) — introduction
• "The Blue Closet" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• "The Defence of Guenevere" (Text [VW] [VW]— Discussion)
• "Golden Wings" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• "The Haystack in the Floods" (Text [VW]— Discussion)
• "King Arthur's Tomb" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• "Near Avalon" (Text [VW])
• "Shameful Death" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• "Summer Dawn" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• "Two Red Roses across the Moon" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• "The Tune of Seven Towers" (Text [VW] — Discussion)
• The Life and Death of Jason (1867)
• The Earthly Paradise (1868-70) [VW] — Discussions: "Morris and the Old Norse Legends"; "Morris and Tolkien"
• The Doom of King Acrisius (contains stories of Danaë and of Perseus and Andromeda
• Pygmalion and the Image
• Love is Enough or the Freeing of Pharamond (1873) [cover design]
• Poems by the Way (1891) Text [VW] of all 55 poems
• Chants for Socialists (1884)
• "The Day is Coming"
• "The Message of the March Wind" — Discussion
• "The Voice of Toil" — Discussion

Fantasy

• A Dream of John Ball (1888)
• The Roots of the Mountains (1890)
• News from Nowhere (1890) — Discussions
• The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
• The Wood at the End of the World [or The Wood beyond the World (1895)
• The Well at the World's End (1896)
• The Sundering Flood (1896; posthumously published)
• The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1896; posthumously published) — discussion

Writings on Art and Politics

• Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)
• The Art and Craft of Printing (1902)
• Signs of Change

Translations

• The Aeneids of Virgil (1875)
• The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (Volsunga Saga) with Eiríkr Magnússon (1877)
• The Story of Grettir the Strong with Eiríkr Magnússon
• Old French Romances

Visual Arts

• Textiles and Textile Design by William Morris and Morris & Co.
• Stained Glass by William Morris
• Furniture
• Ceramic Tiles

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