Author:William Morris

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William Morris
(1834–1896)

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English artist, writer, socialist and activist; one of the principal founders of the British arts and crafts movement, a writer of poetry and fiction and a pioneer of the socialist movement in Britain

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. Mo."

Works

Fiction

The Hollow Land (1856)
A Dream of John Ball (1886) external scan
The House of the Wolfings (1888)
The Roots of the Mountains (1890)
News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (1891)
The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men (1891)
The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (1895)
The Well at the World's End: A Tale (1896)
The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897)
The Sundering Flood (1897) (published posthumously)

Poetry

The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858)
The Life and Death of Jason (1867)
The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870) external scan
- Pygmalion and the Image external scan
- "Minstrels and Maids"
Love Is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1873)
The Pilgrims of Hope (1885)
Chants for Socialists (1885)
Briar Rose (1890) external scan
Poems by the Way (1891)

Essays

contributor to Lectures on Art (1882)
Hopes and Fears for Art (1882) Project Gutenberg
Signs of Change (1888)
"Preface," "Textiles," "Printing," and "Of Dyeing as a Art" in Arts and Crafts Essays (1893)
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.

Translations

The Story of Grettir the Strong with Eiríkr Magnússon (1869)
Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales with Eiríkr Magnússon (1875)
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs with Eiríkr Magnússon (1877)
The Tale of Beowulf with A. J. Wyatt (1895), translation into modern English
Old French Romances, Done into English (1896)

Contributions to EB1911

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

Other

Preface to Good King Wenceslas (1904).

Work about Morris

"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 as an Exponent of Socialism , 1905
"Morris, William (1834-1896)," in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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