William Morris

: This page is about William Morris, the writer, designer and socialist. For other meanings, see William Morris (disambiguation).

Literary works

• The Defence of Guinevere, and other Poems (1858)
• The Life and Death of Jason (1867)
• The Earthly Paradise (1868–70)
• Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond (1872)
• The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs (1876)
• A Dream of John Ball (1886)
• The House of the Wolfings (1888)
• The Roots of the Mountains (1889)
• News from Nowhere (1890)
• The Story of the Glittering Plain (1890)
• The Well at the World's End (1892)
• The Wood Beyond the World (1895)
• The Water of the Wondrous Isles(1896)
• The Sundering Flood(1898)

Notes

• Morris also translated large numbers of mediaeval and classical works, including collections of Icelandic sagas such as Three Northern Love Stories (1875), Virgil's Aeneid (1875), and Homer's Odyssey (1887).
• Morris' book, The Wood Beyond the World, is considered to have heavily influenced C. S. Lewis' Narnia series, while J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris' reconstructions of early Germanic life in 'The House of the Wolfings' and 'The Roots of the Mountains'.
• Editor and fantasy scholar Lin Carter credits William Morris with originating the imaginary-world fantasy with The Well at the World's End and other fantasy novels
• After the death of Tennyson in 1892, Morris was offered the Poet Laureateship, but declined.