William Morris: The Critical Heritage

by Peter Faulkner (Editor)

Overview

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415867900
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2013
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Faulkner

Table of Contents

Introduction; Note on the Text; 1: The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems 1858; 1: Unsigned notice, Spectator February 1858, xxxi, 238; 2: Richard Garnett, unsigned review, Literary Gazette March 1858, xlii, 226-7; 3: H. F. Chorley, unsigned review, Athenaeum 3 April 1858, no. 1588, 427-8; 4: Unsigned review, Tablet April 1858, xix, 266; 5: Unsigned review, Saturday Review 20 November 1858, vi, 506-7; 6: J. H. Shorthouse contrasts Morris with Tennyson 1859; 2: The Life and Death of 1867; 7: Joseph Knight, unsigned review, Sunday Times 9 June 1867, no. 2304, 7; 8: A. C. Swinburne, review, Fortnightly Review July 1867, viii, 19-28; 9: C. E. Norton, review, Nation 22 August 1867, v, 146-7; 10: Henry James, unsigned review, North American Review October 1867, cvi 688-92; 11: A novelist's view of the Morrises March 1869; 3: The Earthly Paradise 1868-70; 12: Walter Pater, unsigned review, Westminster Review October 1868, xc, 300-12; 13: Alfred Austin, unsigned article, Temple Bar November 1869, xxvii, 45-51; 14: Unsigned review, Pall Mall Budget December 1869, iv, 26-7; 15: G. A. Simcox, review, Academy February 1870, i, 121-2; 16: Unsigned review, SpectatorMarch 1870, xliii, 332-4; 17: Sidney Colvin, review, Academy December 1870, ii, 57-8; 18: G. W. Cox, unsigned review, Edinburgh Review January 1871, cxxxiii, 243-66; 19: Unsigned notice, Westminster Review April 1871, xcv, 581; 4: The story of the volsungs and niblungs 1870; 20: G. A. Simcox, review, Academy August 1870, ii, 278-9; 21: Unsigned review, Spectator 13 August 1870, xliii, 983-4; 22: An American view of the limitations of Morris's poetry 1871; 23: An English view of the limitations of Morris's poetry 1872; 5: Comments by contemporary men of letters; 24: John Ruskin on William Morris 1858-83; 25: Alfred Tennyson on William Morris 1867-84; 26: Robert Browning on William Morris 1868-70; 27: Dante Gabriel Rossetti on William Morris 1856-71; 28: Algernon Charles Swinburne on William Morris 1858-95; 29: Gerard Manley Hopkins on William Morris 1877-81; 30: Southern American views of William Morris 1868-84; 6: Love is enough 1872; 31: G. A. Simcox, review, Academy December 1872, iii, 461-2; 32: Sidney Colvin, review, Fortnightly Review 1 January 1873, xiii, 147-8; 7: Three Northern Love Stories 1875; 33: Unsigned review, Athenaeum17 July 1875, no. 2490,75; 8: The aeneids of vergil 1875; 34: Unsigned review, Athenaeum13 November 1875, no. 2507, 635-7; 35: Henry Nettleship, review, AcademyNovember 1875, x, 493-4; 36: Chaucer a healthier influence than Morris 1875; 9: Sigurd the volsung 1876; 37: Theodore Watts, unsigned review, AthenaeumDecember 1876, no. 2563, 753-5; 38: Edmund Gosse, review, Academy9 December 1876, x, 557-8; 39: Unsigned review, Saturday Review20 January 1877, xliii, 81-2; 40: Unsigned review, Literary WorldFebruary 1877, vii, 136-7; 41: Unsigned review, North American ReviewMarch 1877, cxxiv, 323-5; 42: Unsigned review, Atlantic MonthlyApril 1877, xxxix, 501-4; 43: Henry Hewlett, review, Fraser's MagazineJuly 1877, xvi, 96-112; 44: Unsigned review, International ReviewSeptember 1877, iv, 696-9; 45: Oscar Wilde on Morris and the English Renaissance 1882; 10: Hopes and fears for art; 46: Edith Simcox, review, Fortnightly ReviewJune 1882, xxxi, 771-9; 47: Unsigned review, Century MagazineJuly 1882, xxiv, 464-5; 48: Unsigned review, Athenaeum16 September 1882, no. 2864, 374-5; 49: Cloud-Cuckoo-Land in Hammersmith 1885; 11: The odyssey of homer 1887-8; 50: E. D. A. Morshead, two reviews, Academy April 1887, xxxi, 299 and March 1888, xxxiii, 143-4; 51: Oscar Wilde, Unsigned Reviews, Pall Mall Magazine 26 April 1887, xlv, 5 and 24 November 1888, Xlvi, 3; 52: Mowbray Morris, Unsigned Article, Quarterly Review October 1888, clxvii, 407-8; 53: Edward Dowden: ‘Mr. Morris Has Found A Faith' 1888; 12: Signs Of Change 1888; 54: Unsigned review, Saturday Review 19 May 1888, lxvi, 607-8; 55: Unsigned Review, Today November 1888, x, 153-4; 13: A Dream of John Ball 1888; 56: Unsigned, review, Pall Mall Gazette 16 March 1888, xlvi, 3; 14: The House Of The Wolfings 1889; 57: Unsigned review, Saturday Review 26 January 1889, lxviii, 101-2; 58: Henry Hewlett, review, Nineteenth Century August 1889, xxvi, 337-41; 59: Unsigned review, Atlantic Monthly June 1890, lxv, 851-4; 15: The Roots of the Mountains 1890; 60: Unsigned review, Spectator 8 February 1890, lxv, 208-9; 16: News From Nowhere 1891; 61: Lionel Johnson, review, Academy 23 May 1891, xxxix, 483-4; 62: Maurice Hewlett, review, National Review August 1891, xvii, 818-27; 63: Nordau on Morris's degeneracy 1892; 17: Poems By The Way 1892; 64: Richard Garnett, review, Illustrated London News 9 January 1892, c, 50; 65: Oliver Elton, review, Academy February 1892, xli, 197; 18: Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome 1893; 66: Unsigned review, Athenaeum 18 November 1893, no. 3447, 965; 67: Unsigned review, Critic February 1894, xxi, 107; 68: Unsigned Article, London Quarterly Review April 1894, xxii, 84-8; 69: F W. H. Myers on Morris's Weltanschauung 1893; 19: The Wood Beyond the World 1895; 70: Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum 2 March 1895, no. 3514, 273-4; 71: Unsigned review, Spectator July 1895, lxxv, 52-3; 20: Beowulf 1895; 72: Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum 10 August 1895, no. 3537, 181-2; 21: Old French Romances 1896; 73: Unsigned review, Nation June 1896, lxiii, 88-9; 74: A Radical tribute to Morris 1896; 75: An ‘inverted apologia 1896; 76: An Anarchist tribute to Morris 1896; 77: Morris's ‘great inspiring hatred' 1896; 78: Walter Crane on William Morris 1896; 22: The Well at The World's End 1896; 79: H. G. Wells, review, 17 October 1896, lxxxii, 413-15 Saturday Review; 80: A. C. Swinburne, review, Nineteenth Century November 1896, xl, 759-60; 81: W. B. Yeats, review, Bookman November 1896, x, 37-8; 23: The Water of The Wondrous Isles 1897; 82: Theodore Watts, unsigned review, Athenaeum December 1897, no. 3658, 777-9; 24: The Sundering Flood 1897; 83: Unsigned review, Academy March 1898, liii, 304-5; 84: Morris's ‘wonderful versatility of talents' 1897

Editorial Reviews

The essays have two main foci: the revaluation of Morris in the context of his own time, and the revaluation of his legacy. The strength of the book as a whole is that it answers to those two concerns admirably well. The editors risked analytical depth in deciding to print so many (eighteen) essays touching not just on, say, Morris’s literary accomplishments, but also on his work as a designer, as a politician, and as a businessman. But here too, the book succeeds, because nearly all of the essays are grounded by one overarching issue: Morris’s own relationship to history. These pieces are concerned not only with his interest in the past, but also with his vigorous engagement with his historical present.

Utopian Studies

William Morris: Centenary Essays should be regarded by Morrisian scholars as an essential source, now and for many years to come. The scope, variety and mostly high—sometimes outstanding—quality of the essays make it worthy of wider attention too. Expertly edited and attractively produced, moreover, the actual book truly befits its subject. Peter Faulkner, Peter Preston and the University of Exeter Press deserve congratulations and thanks.

David Jones Journal

This is a challenging volume of essays which will no doubt further encourage Morrisian studies as we approach the new millennium. The editors, and the University of Exeter Press, are to be congratulated for producing such a fitting tribute to one of the greatest men of the Victorian age.

Journal of the William Morris Society