The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood Beyond the World

by William Morris
The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood Beyond the World

by William Morris

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Overview

A wonderful fantasy set in a medieval never-never land, reprinted here as a facsimile of the beautiful Kelmscott Press edition. Morris was source behind Dunsany, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940000760383
Publisher: B&rR Samizdat Express
Publication date: 01/01/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 292 KB

About the Author

Robert Boenig is Professor of English at Texas A&M University, and the co-editor, with Andrew Taylor, of the Broadview Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
William Morris: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Wood Beyond the World

Appendix A: Morris and Medieval Narrative

  1. From Morris’s and A.J.Wyatt’s Translation of Beowulf (1895)
  2. From Morris’s and Eírikr Magnússon’s Translation of The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (1870)
  3. From Malory’s Morte D’Arthur (1471)

Appendix B: Morris and Socialism

  1. “The Socialist Ideal: Art” (1891)
  2. “How I Became a Socialist” (1894)

Appendix C: Works by Morris’s Contemporaries

  1. From Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867)
  2. From John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
  3. From Robert Buchanan, “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti” (1871)
  4. William Hurrell Mallock, “How to Make a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem” (1872)
  5. From May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris (1913)

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