The Earthly Paradise by William Morris

by William Morris, Florence Boos (Editor)

Overview

This annotated critical edition is the first attempt to make Morris's 42,000-word verse sequence accessible to a modern audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815321040
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/26/2001
Series:	Worlds of English Series , #1939
Pages:	890
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 3.32(d)

About the Author

William Morris, Florence Boos

Table of Contents

1: September; 1: The Death of Paris; 2: The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon; 2: October; 3: The Story of Acontius and Cydippe; 4: The Man Who Never Laughed Again; 3: November; 5: The Story of Rhodope; 6: The Lovers of Gudrun; 4: December; 7: The Golden Apples; 8: The Fostering of Aslaug; 5: January; 9: Bellerophon at Argos; 10: The Ring Given to Venus; 6: February; 11: Bellerophon in Lycia; 12: The Hill of Venus

Editorial Reviews

"It is time that a work of such richness and beauty, whatever its flaws, was again made available, and, for that, Routledge and Professor Boos are to be praised without reservation. Boos's introduction is helpful and perceptive." — Clive Wilmer, The Times Literary Supplement
"Professor Boos is the most prominent of a number of scholars, most of them American and relatively young, who have argued against the poem's neglect, attributing it to our intellectual laziness: a passive acceptance of the modernist reaction against Victorian monuments." — Clive Wilmer, The Times Literary Supplement

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