Writings by William Morris on the Internet

See also

• Chronological List of William Morris's Writings
• A Selective William Morris Bibliography
• Book design by Morris

Poetry

• The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems [from the Camelot Project]
  • "The Chapel of Lyonesse"
  • "The Defence of Guenevere"
  • "The Haystack in the Floods"
  • "In Arthur's House"
  • "In Prison"
  • "King Arthur's Tomb"
  • "Near Avalon"
  • "Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery"
• The Earthly Paradise [extracts, from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
• "Missing," poem in illuminated manuscript A Book of Verses [Victoria and Albert Museum]
• Songs from Love is Enough [from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
• "Mine and Thine" [from Anglo-Catholic Socialism]
• Sigurd the Volsung, extracts [from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
  Click here for a commentary by Jane Susanna Ennis on Sigurd and Richard Wagner
• "The Voice of Toil"
• "A Death Song" [from Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto]
• "For the Bed at Kelmscott"
• Sonnets [from the Victorian Sonnet]:
  • "Summer Dawn"
  • "Near but Far Away"
  • "The Doomed Ship"

Prose

• University of Adelaide Electronic Text Collection contains fourteen titles by Morris:
  • The House of the Wolfings (1889)
  • The Roots of the Mountains (1889)
  • The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
  • The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
  • The Well At The World's End (1896)
  • A Dream of John Ball (1888)
  • News from Nowhere (1890)
  • Old French Romances (1896)
  • Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)
  • Signs of Change (1888)
  • Poems by the Way (1891)
  • The Pilgrims of Hope
  • Chants for Socialists (1885)
• The aim of the Marxist Internet Archive is to put all that Morris wrote on politics, printing, and the arts on the Internet.
• "Art and Socialism" (1884) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• "As to Bribing Excellence" [MS in International Institute for Social History]
• Child Christopher
• "The Claim of Socialism" (preface to Chants for Socialists) [ Anglo-Catholic socialism]
• "The Decorative Arts" (1877) [J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson; the frontispiece for the book by Burne-Jones
• Texts of A Dream of John Ball and News from Nowhere[etexts project at University of Virginia]
• "Gossip about an Old House on the Upper Thames"[J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• "How I Became a Socialist" (1894) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• "How Shall We Live Then!" [MS in International Institute for Social History]
• "How We Live and How We Might Live" (1884) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• "The Lesser Art of Life" (1882) [J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• News from Nowhere illustrated e-text: http://www.uiowa.edu/~wmorris/news [University of Iowa]
• News from Nowhere [text] and frontispiece to the Kelmscott Press edition
• "A Note on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press"[Modern Fine Printing]
• "Socialism and Anarchism" (1889) [William Morris Internet Archive]
• Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, translated by Morris and Eirikr Magnusson[Berkeley Digital Library]
• The Well at the World's End
• "Why I am a Communist" ]MS in International Institute for Social History]
• "The Worker's Share of Art" (1885) [Anglo-Catholic socialism site]

Related items

• Front cover of theOxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856)
• "The Morris Exhibit at the Foreign Fair" (1883-4), pamphlet written by Morris & Co. manager George Wardle for exhibition in Boston [J. R. Burrows & Co.]
• William Morris's Late Prose Romances, summaries of the stories and a who's who of characters [Michael DuBroy]
• Something of William Morris [Anglo-Catholic socialism site], extracts from Morris's writings and commentaries