The Collected Works of William Morris
With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris

This 24-volume set, published 1910–15, reveals the development and scope of a Victorian polymath's literary, aesthetic and political passions.

William Morris (Author), May Morris (Introduction by)

9781108051293, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 October 2012

456 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.9 x 2.6 x 15.2 cm, 0.67 kg

A creative titan of the Victorian age, William Morris (1834–96) produced a prodigious variety of literary and artistic work in his lifetime. In addition to his achievements as a versatile designer at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement, Morris distinguished himself as a poet, translated Icelandic sagas and classical epics, wrote a series of influential prose romances, and gave lectures promoting his socialist principles. His collected works, originally published in 24 volumes between 1910 and 1915, were edited by his daughter Mary (May) Morris (1862–1938), whose introductions to each volume chart with insight and sympathy the development of her father's literary, aesthetic and political passions. Volume 15 contains the fantasy novel The Roots of the Mountains (1889).

Introduction
Bibliographical note
The Roots of the Mountains: 1. Of Burgstead and its folk and its neighbours
2. Of Face-of-god and his kindred
3. They talk of diverse matters in the hall
4. Face-of-god fareth to the woods again
5. Face-of-god falls in with the menfolk in the mountain
6. Of Face-of-god and those mountain-dwellers
7. Face-of-god talketh with the friend on the mountain
8. Face-of-god cometh home again to Burgstead
9. Those brethren fare to the yew-wood with the bride
10. New tidings in the dale
11. Men make oath at Burgstead
12. Stone-face telleth concerning the wood-wights
13. They fare to the hunting of the elk
14. Concerning Face-of-god and the mountain
15. Murder amongst the folk of the woodlanders
16. The bride speaketh with Face-of-god
17. The token cometh from the mountain
18. Face-of-god talketh with the friend in shadowy vale
19. The fair woman telleth Face-of-god of the kindred
20. Those two together hold the ring of the earth-god
21. Face-of-god looketh on the dusky men
22. Face-of-god cometh home to Burgstead
23. Talk in the hall in the house of the face
24. Face-of-god giveth that token to the bride
25. Of the gate-thing at Burgstead
26. The ending of the gate-thing
27. Face-of-god leadeth a band through the wood
28. The men of Burgdale meet the runaways
29. They bring the runaways to Burgstead
30. Hall-face goeth towards Rosedale
31. Of the weaponshow of the men of Burgdale and their neighbours
32. The men of Shadowy Vale come to the spring market at Burgstead
33. The alderman gives gifts to them of Shadowy Vale
34. The chieftains take counsel in the house of the face
35. Face-of-god talketh with the sunbeam
36. Folk-might speaketh with the bride
37. Of the folk-mote of the dalesmen, the shepherd-folk, and the woodland carles
38. Of the great folk-mote
39. Of the great folk-mote
40. Of the hosting in Shadowy Vale
41. The host departeth from Shadowy Vale
42. The host cometh to the edges of Silverdale
43. Face-of-god looketh on Silverdale
44. Of the onslaught of the men of the steer, the bridge, and the bull
45. Of Face-of-god's onslaught
46. Men meet in the market of Silverstead
47. The kindreds win the mote-house
48. Men sing in the mote-house
49. Dallach fareth to Rosedale
50. Folk-might seeth the bride and speaketh with her
51. The dead borne to bale
52. Of the new beginning of good days in Silverdale
53. Of the word which Hall-ward of the steer had for Folk-might
54. Tidings of Dallach
55. Departure from Silverdale
56. Talk upon the wild-wood way
57. How the host came home again
58. How the maiden ward was held in Burgdale
59. The behest of Face-of-god to the bride accomplished.

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