Peter Faulkner, editor. William Morris.

Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems (1858)

1 – Unsigned notice, Spectator, February 1858

2 – Richard Garnett, unsigned review, Literary Gazette, March 1858

3 – H. F. Chorley, unsigned review, Athenaeum, April 1838

4 – Unsigned review, Tablet, April 1858

5 – Unsigned review, Saturday Review, November 1858

6 – J. H. Shorthouse contrasts Morris with Tennyson, 1859

The Life and Death of Jason (1867)

7 – Joseph Knight, unsigned review, Sunday Times, June 1867

8 – A. C. Swinburne, review, Fortnightly Review, July 1867

9 – C. E. Norton, review, Nation, August 1867

10 – Henry James, unsigned review, North American Review, October 1867

11 – Henry James, a novelist’s view of the Morrises, March 1869

The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)

12 – Walter Pater, unsigned review, Westminster Review, October 1868

13 – Alfred Austin, unsigned article, Temple Bar, November 1869

14 – Unsigned review, Pall Mall Budget, December 1869

15 – G. A. Simcox, review, Academy, February 1870

16 – Unsigned review, Spectator, March 1870

17 – Sidney Colvin, review, Academy, December 1870

18 – G. W. Cox, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1871

19 – Unsigned review, Westminster Review, April 1871

The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (1870)

20 – G. A. Simcox, review, Academy, August 1870

21 – Unsigned review, Spectator, August 1870

22 – Unsigned article, New Englander, October 1871

23 – W. J. Courthope, unsigned article, Quarterly Review, January 1872

Comments by contemporary men of letters

24 – John Ruskin, 1858-83

25 – Alfred Tennyson, 1867-84

26 – Robert Browning, 1868-70

27 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1856-71

28 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1858-95

29 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1877-81

30 – Southern American views, 1868-84

Love is Enough (1872)

31 – G. A. Simcox, review, Academy, December 1872

32 – Sidney Colvin, review, Fortnightly Review, January 1873

Three Northern Love Stories (1875)

33 – Unsigned review, Athenaeum, July 1875

The Aeneids of Vergil (1875)

34 – Unsigned review, Athenaeum, November 1875

35 – Henry Nettleship, review, Academy, November 1875

36 – Sidney Lanier, article, Southern Magazine, January 1875

Sigurd the Volsung (1876)

37 – Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum, December 1876

38 – Edmund Gosse, review, Academy, December 1876

39 – Unsigned review, Saturday Review, January 1877

40 – Unsigned review, Literary World, February 1877

41 – Unsigned review, North American Review, March 1877

42 – Unsigned review, Atlantic Monthly, April 1877

43 – Henry Hewlett, review, Fraser’s Magazine, July 1877

44 – Unsigned review, International Review, September 1877

45 – Oscar Wilde on Morris and the English Renaissance, January 1882

Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)

46 – Edith Simcox, review, Fortnightly Review, June 1882

47 – Unsigned review, Century Magazine, July 1882

48 – Unsigned review, Athenaeum, September 1882

49 – Unsigned article, Saturday Review, January 1885

The Odyssey of Homer (1887-8)

50 – E. D. A. Morshead, two reviews, Academy, April 1887 and March 1888

51 – Oscar Wilde, unsigned reviews, Pall Mall Magazine, April 1887 and November 1888

52 – Mowbray Morris, unsigned article, Quarterly Review, October 1888

53 – Edward Dowden: ‘Mr. Morris has found a faith’, 1888

Signs of Change (1888)

54 – Unsigned review, Saturday Review, May 1888

55 – Unsigned review, Today, November 1888

A Dream of John Ball (1888)

56 – Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, March 1888

The House of the Wolfings (1889)

57 – Unsigned review, Saturday Review, January 1889

58 – Henry Hewlett, review, Nineteenth Century, August 1889

59 – Unsigned review, Atlantic Monthly, June 1890

The Roots of the Mountains (1890)

60 – Unsigned review, Spectator, February 1890

News from Nowhere (1891)

61 – Lionel Johnson, review, Academy, May 1891

62 – Maurice Hewlett, review, National Review, August 1891

63 – Nordau on Morris’s degeneracy, 1892

Poems by the Way (1892)

64 – Richard Garnett, review, Illustrated London News, January 1892

65 – Oliver Elton, review, Academy, February 1892

Socialism: its Growth and Outcome (1893)

66 – Unsigned review, Athenaeum, November 1893

67 – Unsigned review, Critic, February 1894

68 – Unsigned article, London Quarterly Review, April 1894

69 – F. W. H. Myers, article, Nineteenth Century, January 1893

The Wood Beyond the World (1895)

70 – Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum, March 1895

71 – Unsigned review, Spectator, July 1895

Beowulf (1895)

72 – Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum, August 1895

Old French Romances (1896)

73 – Unsigned review, Nation, June 1896

74 – Robert Blatchford, Clarion, October 1896

75 – A. T. Quiller-Couch, Speaker, October 1896

76 – Peter Kropotkine, Freedom, November 1896

77 – Edward Carpenter, Freedom, December 1896

78 – Walter Crane, Progressive Review, November 1896

The Well at the World’s End (1896)

79 – H. G. Wells, review, Saturday Review, October 1896

80 – A. C. Swinburne, review, Nineteenth Century, November 1896

81 – W. B. Yeats, review, Bookman, November 1896

The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897)

82 – Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum, December 1897

The Sundering Flood (1897)

83 – Unsigned review, Academy, March 1898

84 – H. H. Statham, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review, January 1897

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