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

by William Morris, May Morris (Introduction)

Overview

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 12 contains The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876), Morris' epic poem based on the Völsunga saga.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108051347
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/11/2012
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	1.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 5.98(d)

Table of Contents

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.