Francis Hueffer’s Tauchnitz selection, with a memoir, draws on the whole of Morris’s poetry. It begins with the Arthurian and Froissart-haunted pieces of The Defence of Guenevere, such as A Good Knight in Prison, Shameful Death and The Eve of Crecy, and goes on to his longer narrative poems, including the idle singer’s verses from The Earthly Paradise.
A well-chosen introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite poet, designer and socialist at his most romantic. Download the free EPUB.