William Morris's Writings
Articles in the Journal of William Morris Studies,
1961–2007

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• Early Poetry and Prose Romances
  
• Poetry After The Defence of Guenevere
  
• Socialist Writings and Political Romances (Nupkins Awakened, John Ball, News from Nowhere, The King's Lesson)
  
• Late Romances
  
• Translations and Icelandic Diaries
  
• Opinions on Literature
  
• Other Topics

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Morris's Early Poetry and Prose Romances
(some overlap with the next category)

• "The Defence of Guenevere and Contemporary Critics." John Schofield, JWMS 3.1 (Spring 1974): 27-30.
• "Image and Motif in The Haystack in the Floods." Robert Hoskins, JWMS 3.2 (Summer 1976): 4-7.
• "Morris and his Critics." Catherine Buckley, JWMS 3.4 (Winter 1978):14-19.
• "The Symbolism of William Morris." Ralph Berry, JWMS 3.4 (Winter 1978): 20-34.
• "A Church Without God: William Morris's A Night in a Cathedral." Helen Timo, JWMS 4.2 (Summer 1980): 24-31.
• "Morris and the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine." J.M. Baïssus, JWMS 5.2 (Winter 1982): 2-13.
• "Riding Together: William Morris and Robert Browning." Amanda Hodgson, JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 3-7.
• "Self-Revelation in Morris's Unfinished Novel." Sue Mooney, JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 2-9.
• "William Morris's Writing." Geoffrey Tillotson (edited by Peter Faulkner), JWMS 6.2 (Winter 1984-85): 10-14.
• "Patterns of Enclosure in Morris's Early Stories." Pauline Dewan, JWMS 11.2 (Spring 1995): 9-11.
• "'Two Red Roses Across the Moon'-Reconsidering Symbolic Implications." Vanessa Furse Jackson, JWMS 12.1 (Autumn 1996): 29-34.
• "From Romance to Duty: Thomas Woolner and My Beautiful Lady." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 12.3 (Autumn 1997): 26-35.
• "The Influence of De La Motte Fouqué's Sintram and His Companions on William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World." Hilary Newman, JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 47-53.
• "A Rediscovered and Partly Unpublished Morris Notebook." Chris Fletcher, JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 12-20.
• "Morris and Swinburne." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 15.3 (Winter 2003): 4-26.
• "Teaching Morris's Early Dream Poems through the Three Registers." Todd O. Williams, JWMS 17.2(2007): 99-114.
• "Lyric Colour: Pre-Raphaelite Art and Morris's The Defence of Guenevere." Elizabeth Helsinger, 16-40.
• "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris." Michaela Braesel 41-54.
• "Illustrating Morris: The Work of Jessie King and Maxwell Armfield." Rosie Miles, 109-135.
• "The Art of Printing and 'TheLand of Lies': The Story of the Glittering Plain" Terence Hoagwood, JWMS 18.1, (Winter 2008): 8-21.
• Morris and Tennyson. Peter Faulkner, JWMS 18.2, (Summer 2009): 15.
• The Landscapes of Nowhere. Béatrice Laurent, JWMS 18.2, (Summer 2009): 52.
• "News from Nowhere as Séance Fiction." Tony Pinkney, JWMS 18.3, (Winter 2009): 29-47.
• "William Morris's 'A King's Lesson': A Hungarian Perspective" Éva Péteri, JWMS 18.3 (Winter 2009): 48-55.

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Morris's Poetry After The Defence of Guenevere

• "Victorian Response to Earthly Paradise Tales." Florence Boos, JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 16-29.
• "'A Matter of Craftsmanship': William Morris's Manuscripts." David Latham, JWMS 6.3 (Summer 1985): 2-11.
• "The Role of Grimhild in Sigurd the Volsung." Jane Ennis, JWMS 8.3 (Autumn 1989): 13-23.
• "'Silence and Pity': An Unpublished Fair Copy." Richard Pearson, JWMS 9.2 (Spring 1991): 12-15.
• "Imagery of Gold in Sigurd the Volsung." Jane Ennis, JWMS 11.4 (Spring 1996): 20-26.
• "The Communist Poet-Laureate: William Morris's Chants for Socialists." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 14.3 (Winter 2001): 31-40.
• "The Serialisation of The Pilgrims of Hope." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 14-25.
• "The Story of Alcestis in William Morris and Ted Hughes." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 16.2/3(2005): 56-79.

Morris's Socialist Writings and Political Romances (Nupkins Awakened, John Ball, News from Nowhere, The King's Lesson)

• "The Revision of News from Nowhere." J. Alex Macdonald, JWMS 3.2 (Summer 1976): 8-15.
• "Visions of Wild England: William Morris and Richard Jefferies." J. R. Ebbatson, JWMS 3.3 (Spring 1977): 12-29.
• "News from Nowhere in Recent Criticism." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 5.3 (Summer 1983): 2-7.
• "Morris and Thomas More." J. H. Lupton, JWMS 6.3 (Summer 1985): 11 [extract from introduction to The Utopia of Thomas More].
• "'A Not So Golden Age': The Genesis of Morris's A King's Lesson." Helen A. Timo, JWMS 7.4 (Spring 1988): 16-18.
• "Bloody Sunday and News from Nowhere." Michael Fellman, JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 9-18.
• "News from Nowhere as Erotic Dream." Jan Marsh, JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 19-23.
• "An Old House Amongst New Folk." Lesley A. Baker, JWMS 8.4 (Spring 1990): 24-27.
• "The Reviews Are In: Reclaiming the Success of Morris's 'Socialist Interlude.'" Pamela Bracken Wiens, JWMS 9.2 (Spring 1991): 16-21.
• "Design and Technology in Nowhere." Roger Coleman, JWMS 9.2 (Spring 1991): 28-39.
• "Eros Unbound: Sexual Identities in News from Nowhere." Ady Mineo, JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 8-14.
• "Mr. Olaf Entertains; Or, William Morris's Forgotten Dialogues." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 9.4 (Spring 1992): 15-24.
• "The Revision of A Dream of John Ball." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 15-17.
• "The Old Grumbler At Runnymede." Jan Holm, JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 17-21.
• "The Liveliness of News from Nowhere: Structure, Language and Allusion." Alexander MacDonald, JWMS 10.2 (Spring 1993): 22-26.
• "Liberationist Sexuality and Nonviolent Resistance: The Legacy of Blake and Shelley in Morris's News from Nowhere." Ashton Nichols, JWMS 10.4 (Spring 1994): 20-27.
• "Topical Realism in The Tables Turned." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 11.2 (Spring 1995): 11-19.
• "Beauty and the Body in News from Nowhere." Naomi Jacobs, JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 26-30.
• "International Trade in News from Nowhere." Jannett Highfill, JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 31-35.
• "Cycling in Nowhere." Tony Pinkney, JWMS 13. 2 (Spring 1999): 28-33.
• "William Morris the Socialist Reviewer." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 57-63.
• "From Pastoral Arcadia to Stable-State Mini-Cities: Morris's News from Nowhere and Callenbach's Ecotopia." Martin Delveaux, JWMS 14.1 (Autumn 2000): 75-81.
• "A Reassessment of A Dream of John Ball." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 29-38.
• "'The Battered Looking and Middle-aged Barn-cock'; Or 'An Old Fable Retold.'" JWMS 14.3(2001): Nicholas Salmon, 49-51.
• "A Study in Victorian Historiography: William Morris's Germanic Romances." Nicholas Salmon, JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 59-89.
• "William Morris and Oscar Wilde." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 14.4 (Summer 2002): 25-40.
• "Morrs's Ethics, Cosmopolitanism, and Globalisation." Regenia Gagnier, JWMS 16.2/3 (2005): 9-30.
• "Kinetic Utopias: H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia and William Morris's News from Nowhere." Tony Pinkney, 16.2/3 (2005): 49-55.
• Gilbert, Nathaniel. "The Landscape of Resistance in Morris's News from Nowhere." JWMS 16.2/3 (2005): 22-37.
• "Hope and Change: Teaching News from Nowhere." David Latham, JWMS 17.2(2007): 6-23.
• "Teaching News from Nowhere in France for the CAPES and the Agrégation in English Studies, 2004-2006." Philippe Vervaecke, JWMS 17.2(2007): 24-40.
• "Studying the Past, Envisioning the Future: Teaching History via William Morris's News from Nowhere." Kathleen Maloney, JWMS 17.2(2007): 41-53.
• "Teaching Morris Online." Rosie Miles, JWMS 17.2(2007): 54-72.
• "Collections and Collectivity: William Morris in the Rare Book Room." Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, JWMS 17.2(2007): 73-88.
• "Taking Our Eyes Out of Our Pockets: Teaching William Morris's Ideal Book." Susan Jaret McKinstry, JWMS 17.2(2007): 89-98.

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Morris's Late Romances

• "Morris and Yeats." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 1.3 (Summer 1963): 19-23.
• "The Iceland Journeys and the Late Romances." Jane S. Cooper, JWMS 5.4 (Winter 1983-84): 40-59.
• "Morris and Myth: A Romantic Heritage." Dinah Birch, JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 5-11.
• "'An Icelandic Tale Re-Told': William Morris's Sundering Flood." Helen A. Timo, JWMS 7.1 (Autumn 1986): 12-16.
• "A Structural Approach to The Wood Beyond the World." Andrew Dodds, JWMS 7.2 (Spring 1987): 26-28.
• "Circular Designs in Morris's The Story of the Glittering Plain." Pauline Dewan, JWMS 12.4 (Spring 1998): 15-20.
• "The First Modern 'Secondary World' Fantasy: Morris's Craftsmanship in The Story of The Glittering Plain." Norman Talbot, JWMS 13. 2 (Spring 1999): 3-11.
• "'Earth's Voices as They Are Indeed.'" Lesley A. Baker, JWMS 9.3 (Autumn 1991): 9-18.
• "Romantic Realities." Lesley A. Baker, JWMS 10.1 (Autumn 1992): 10-13.
• "'But He Were King, or Kinges Eyr. . .': Morris's re-telling of Havelok." Norman Talbot, JWMS 10.4 (Spring 1994): 28-39.
• "'Morris was a Giant': The Quest of T. E. Lawrence." Geoffrey Syer, JWMS 10.4 (Spring 1994): 48-52.
• "Morris and Traditional Storytelling." John Purkis, JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 16-18.
• "Forms of Friendship in The Roots of the Mountains." Regina Hansen, JWMS 11.3 (Autumn 1995): 19-21.
• "Water in William Morris's Late Prose Romances." Hilary Newman, JWMS 13.4 (Spring 2000): 41-47.
• "The Influence of De La Motte Fouqué's Sintram and His Companions on William Morris's The Wood Beyond the World." Hilary Newman, JWMS 14.2 (2001): 47-53.
• "The Music of the Mind: Structure and Substance in William Morris's The Water of the Wondrous Isles." George D. Gopen, JWMS 16.2/3 (2005), 92-102.
• "Rediscovering the Topography of Wonder: Morris, Iceland, and the Late Romances." Phillippa Bennett, JWMS 16.2/3 (2005): 38-48.

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Morris's Translations and Icelandic Diaries

• "Volsungasaga and Two Transformations." Dudley L. Hascall, JWMS 2.3 (Winter 1968): 18-23.
• "The Forces of Destiny and of Doom': William Morris, The Story of Kormak and the Heroic Ethic." Lesley Baker, JWMS 8.1 (Autumn 1988): 29-34.
• "Morris and Old French." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 15.1 (Winter 2002): 43-50.
• "The Saga of Jón Jónsson Saddlesmith of Lithend-cot." Ruth Ellison, JWMS 10.1 (Autumn 1992): 21-30.
• "'But He Were King, or Kinges Eyr. . .': Morris's re-telling of Havelok." Norman Talbot, JWMS 10.4 (Spring 1994): 28-39.
• "Fire and Ice: Clashing Visions of Iceland in the Travel Narratives of Morris and Burton." Pamela Bracken Wiens, JWMS 11.4 (Spring 1996): 12-18.
• "The Importance of Morris's Beowulf." Robert Boenig, JWMS 12.2 (Spring 1997): 7-13.
• "'The North Begins Inside': Morris and Trollope in Iceland." Peter Preston, JWMS 14.2 (Spring 2001): 8-28.
• "William Morris and Iceland's Hydrogen Economy." Dennis Bartels, JWMS 15.3 (2003): 34-35.

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Morris's Opinions on Literature

• "William Morris as a Reviewer." JWMS 5.2 (Winter 1982): 32.
• "'Deliver Us from Two (or More) Professors of Criticism.'" Alan Bacon, JWMS 9.1 (Autumn 1990): 29-34.
• "Morris and Literacy." Kerima Mohideen, JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 19-26.
• "Morris and the Study of English." Peter Faulkner, JWMS 11.1 (Autumn 1994): 26-30.

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Other Topics

• "Morris and James Joyce." Stephen Hero, JWMS 6.3 (Summer 1985): 11 [extract from James Joyce, 1944].
• "The Defence of Yseult: Swinburne's Queen Yseult and William Morris"
  Richard Frith JWMS 18.1 (Winter 2008), 85-95 .
• "William Morris: an annotated bibliography, 2004-5." David and Sheila Latham, JWMS 17.4 (Summer 2008), 81-112.