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A Short Biography of William Morris

Author Name:

William Morris

Born As:

William Morris

Other Names:

Born:

24 Mar 1834

Died:

03 Oct 1896




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Poet, artist, writer, textile designer and socialist                          
Selected woks:

Collected Poetry, Fiction, and Essays:

The Hollow Land - 1856
The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems - 1858
The Life and Death of Jason - 1867
The Earthly Paradise - 1868–1870
Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality - 1872
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs - 1877
Hopes and Fears For Art - 1882
The Pilgrims of Hope - 1885
A Dream of John Ball - 1888
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse - 1889
The Roots of the Mountains - 1890
Poems By the Way - 1891
News from Nowhere - or, An Epoch of Rest - 1890
The Story of the Glittering Plain - 1891
The Wood Beyond the World - 1894
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair - 1895
The Well at the World's End - 1896
The Water of the Wondrous Isles - 1897
The Sundering Flood - 1897 - published posthumously

Translations:

Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong with Eiríkr Magnússon - 1869
The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Rafn the Skald with Eiríkr Magnússon - 1869
Völsung Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda with Eiríkr Magnússon - 1870 - from the Volsunga saga
Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales with Eiríkr Magnússon - 1875
The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse - 1887
The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English - 1876
Of King Florus and the Fair Jehane - 1893
The Tale of Beowulf Done out of the Old English Tongue - 1895
Old French Romances Done into English - 1896.
                          
Mother  Emma Shelton
Father William Morris, three sons.
Wife Jame Burden, two daughters, Jane Alice who developed epilepsy in her teens, and Mary.