Author:William Morris

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William Morris (1834–1896)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, quotes. English artist, writer, socialist and activist. He was 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 written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. Mo."

William Morris

Works

Fiction

• The Hollow Land (1856)
• A Dream of John Ball (1886)
• 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)
  • "Minstrels and Maids"
• Love Is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1873)
• The Pilgrims of Hope (1885)
• Chants for Socialists (1885)
• 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)

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)

Work about Morris

• “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

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 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.