Selections from Rossetti and Morris

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.