Selections from Rossetti and Morris

A 1929 selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.

H. M. Burton (Edited by)

9781107692237, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 February 2012

188 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.21 kg

This book was first published in 1929 and contains a selection of poetry and prose from two prominent members of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. The selections are arranged chronologically in most instances, highlighting the development of style and subject matter in each author's oeuvre. A generous introduction is supplied, outlining the ideology of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and providing short biographical sketches of both Rossetti and Morris, and critical notes are included for several of the works. This volume will appeal to anyone wishing to trace the different interpretations of the Pre-Raphaelite movement by two of its most famous literary figures.

Introduction
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: From Poems, 1870: The blessed damozel
The staff and scrip
The portrait
Sister Helen
The stream's secret
The card-dealer
The ballad of dead ladies
My father's close
The birth-bond
Lost days
A superscription
Newborn death
Love-lily
Sudden light
The woodspurge
Mary's girlhood
From Ballads and Sonnets, 1881: Down stream
The white ship
Soothsay
The cloud confines
Winter
Spring
From The Germ, 1850: Hand and soul
William Morris: From The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856: Frank's sealed letter
From The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems, 1858: A good knight in prision
The gilliflower of gold
Shameful death
The eve of Crecy
The judgement of God
The sailing of the sword
The haystack in the floods
Two red roses across the moon
Summer dawn
In prison
From The Life and Death of Jason, 1867: Book VI: The passage of the Symplegades
Book IV: Song
From The Earthly Paradise, 1868–70: The prelude
Atlanta's race
The man born to be king
L'envoi
From Love is Enough, 1872: The music
From Sigurd the Volsung, 1876: Sigmund receiveth his sword from Odin
Sigurd getteth to him the horse that is called Greyfell
How Sigurd awoke Brynhild upon Hindfell
The last of Sigurd
From The House of the Wolfings, 1888: Tidings of the battle in Mirkwood
From The Story of the Glittering Plain, 1891: On the fight of the champions
From News from Nowhere, 1891: The workers
Kelmscott
From Poems by the Way, 1891: The burghers' battle
Iceland first seen
The flowering orchard
From the Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, 1893: For a bed
Notes.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]