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Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry
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§1
Morris’s contributions to periodicals are detailed in the bibliographies of
Forman and Scott (see Bibliographies, above) which cover the four jnls with
which Morris was most intimately associated: (1) The Oxford and
Cambridge Mag (Jan–Dec 1856). After the first number, edited by Morris,
this jnl was edited by W. Fulford, but Morris was its financial mainstay and
its principal contributor. With the exception of Winter weather, all of
Morris’s poems were rptd in The defence of Guinevere, 1858; his tales,
essays and poems in The hollow land and other contributions to the
Oxford and Cambridge Magazine and in Collected works; (2) Justice;
(3) The Commonweal,which Morris edited from its beginning, vols 1–6,
Feb 1885, through 1890, (4) The Architect, where many of Morris’s lectures
were first printed.
By current count, some 17 Morris publications are proved or suspected forgeries,
piracies, or sophistications, produced by the industry of T. J. Wise in collaboration
with Morris’s bibliographer, H. B. Forman. These unauthorised
publications, though using genuine Morris texts, are fabricated rarities, with
false dates either stated or implied in the publications themselves or in
Forman’s The books of Morris described (see Bibliographies, above).
They are listed here, with annotations and references, in the chronological
sequence according to the dates of publication designed for them by their creators.
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. No 1 ed Morris, nos 2–12 ed
W. Fulford, Oxford Jan–Dec 1856; New York 1972 (photo facs).
Sir Galahad: a Christmas mystery.‘1858’ [1890?]. A forgery, i.e. a later
fabrication (the date, not the text, is false) intended to be
accepted as a rare first edn. See J. Carter and H. G. Pollard, An
enquiry into the nature of certain nineteenth-century pamphlets,
in §2, below. Rptd New Rochelle NY 1902 (Elston Press);
Chicago [1904] (Blue Sky Press); Englewood NJ 1915 (Hillside
Press). First pbd in The defence of Guenevere and other poems,
see below.
The defence of Guenevere and other poems. 1858; 1875 (ordinary
edn, new set); Boston 1875 (2nd issue, ordinary edn, imported
English sheets); 1883 (ordinary edn), rptd 1889; 1892 (Kelmscott
Press, rev); 1896 (ordinary edn, The poetical works of William
Morris); London and New York 1900 (new set, ‘Reprinted from
the Kelmscott Press edition, as revised by the author’), rptd 1903;
illustr J. M. King 1904 (Bodley Head); ed R. Steele 1904 (The King’s
Poets); 1905 (‘Cheap edn’, Longman); Philadelphia [1906] (G. W.
Jacobs); ed R. Steele 1907 (King’s Classics no 25); 1908 (‘Best edn’,
Longman); 1909 (‘Cheap edn’, Longman); 1910 (Collected works
vol 1, bound in with The hollow land and other contributions to
the Oxford and Cambridge Mag); introd J. Drinkwater [1912] (The
Muses’ Lib); as The early poems of Morris, illustr F. Harrison, 1914
(Blackie & Son); 1915 (new impression, ‘reprinted from the
Kelmscott Press edition, as revised by the author’); 1916
(Longman’s Pocket Lib); ed M. Lourie, New York 1981 (Garland).
The life and death of Jason: a poem. 1867; Boston 1867 (new set);
Boston 1867 (2nd edn, i.e. 2nd issue, 1st edn); ‘1868’ [1867] (2nd
edn rev, ordinary edn); 1868 (2nd edn, rev), rptd 1869, 1870 (5th
edn); Boston 1871 (ptd using English plates); 1872 (6th edn);
Boston 1877; 1877 (7th edn); 1882 (8th edn, rev); Boston 1889 (9th
edn); Boston 1893 (ptd using English plates); 1895 (Kelmscott
Press); 1896 (Longman’s reissue, ordinary edn); 1897 (9th edn, The
poetical works of Morris); New York 1900 (Longman’s re-issue of
‘Author’s edn’ copies); 1902 (10th impression, The poetical works
of Morris); New York 1903 (‘Author’s edn’); 1907 (11th impression);
1907 (Longman’s Pocket Lib); New York 1909 (‘Author’s
edn’); 1910 (Collected works vol 2); ed J. Drinkwater. [1910] (Muses
Lib); introd by E. Rhys [1911] (EL); 1912 (Collins Illustr Pocket
Classics); ed E. Maxwell, Oxford 1914 (Clarendon, rptd from The
defence of Guenevere . . . and other poems, see Collections and
selections, above); 1914 (Longman’s Pocket Lib); as The life and
death of Jason: a metrical romance, decorated by M. Armfield,
[1915] (Headley Bros), rptd New York 1917 (Dodd Mead & Co); ed E.
Maxwell, Oxford 1919 (Clarendon, rptd from The defence of
Guenevere . . . and other poems, see Collections and selections,
above); 1926 (Longman’s Pocket Lib); introd by E. Rhys [1927] (EL).
The earthly paradise: a poem. 3 (or 4) vols 1868–70. Vol 1, later called
pts 1 & 2, (Mar–Aug) 1868; vol 1, pts 1 & 2, Boston 1868 (‘Author’s
edition’ from imported Eng sheets); vol 1, later called pts 1 & 2
1868 (2nd edn); 1868 (3rd edn); vol 1 pts 1 & 2 Boston 1868
(‘Author’s edition’, re-set ‘from Eng 3rd edition’), rptd 1868; 1869
(4th edn); vols 1 & 2, separate pts 1 & 2. 1870 (5th edn); vol 2, or 3, pt
3, 1870 (1st edn, 2nd vol of 3 vols, 3rd vol of 4 vols); vol 2 pt 3
Boston 1870 (‘Author’s edn’ from imported Eng sheets); vol 2
Boston 1870 (‘Author’s edn’, new set), rptd 1870; vol 2, or 3, pt 3,
1870 (2nd edn, i.e. 2nd issue); rptd 1870 (3rd edn); vol 2 pt 3 Boston
1870 (‘Author’s edn’); vol 3, or 4, pt 4, 1870 (completes both the 3vol
and 4-vol Eng ordinary, later ‘Library’ edn), rptd 1870 (2nd
edn), 1871 (3rd edn); vol 3 pt 4 Boston 1871 (‘Author’s edn’,
imported Eng sheets, completes Boston imported edn in 3 vols);
Boston 1871 (‘Author’s edn’ re-set, completes US setting in 3 vols),
rptd 3 vols Boston 1871 (2 versions, ‘16mo’ and ‘Cheap edn’); vols 1
& 2, 2 pts, 1871 (6th edn); 10 pts 1872 (‘Popular edn’); 3 vols Boston
1874 (‘6-quire edn’); 3 vols Boston 1878 (‘Author’s edn’, ‘6-Quire’);
vols 1 & 2, 2 pts, 1880 (8th edn); 3 vols Boston 1884 (‘Author’s edn’,
‘16mo edn’); 5 pts 1886 (complete set made by combining sheets of
the 10-pt ‘Popular edn’); 3 vols Boston 1888 (‘Cheap edn’); in 1 vol
1890 (‘Cheap edn’, rev); 3 vols, pts 1 & 2 in 1 vol, Boston 1891 (9th
edn, pts 3 & 4 in 2 vols 7th edn); 3 vols Boston 1893 (‘Author’s edn’
rptd US setting); in 1 vol 1895 (‘Cheap edn’), rptd 1896; 4 vols 1896;
8 vols 1896–7 (Kelmscott Press); vols 1 & 2 1896–7 (10th edn, for
Longman as part of The poetical works of Morris, and the Lib edn
in 4 vols, incorporating the revisions made for the 1-vol edn in
1890 and used also with the Kelmscott Press edn of 1896–7); vol 3
pt 3 1896 (8th edn for ‘Lib edn’ in 4 vols, incorporating the revisions
of 1890); vol 4 pt 4 1897 (‘Lib edn’, incorporating the revisions
of 1890); in 1 vol 1898 (‘Cheap edn’), rptd 1900; vol 1 of 4 vols
1902 (11th impression ‘Lib edn’); pt 2 of 10 pts 1902 (‘Popular edn’);
vol 3 of 4 vols 1902 (‘Lib edn’); in 1 vol 1902 (‘Cheap edn’); vol 2 of 4
vols 1903 (11th edn, ‘Lib edn’); pt 2 of 10 1903 (‘Popular edn’); pt 3
of 10 1903 (‘Popular edn’); pt 7 of 10 1904 (‘Popular edn’); vol 4 of 4
vols 1904 (9th edn, ‘Lib edn’); pt 2 of 10 1904 (‘Popular edn’);
Introd J. W. Mackail. 4 vols or 12 pts London and New York 1905
(same sheets 4 vols called ‘Silver Lib’ only in London); in 1 vol 1905
(‘Cheap edn’); in 1 vol 1907 (New impression); in 1 vol 1910 (New
impression); vols 1 & 2 of 4 vols 1910 (Collected works vols 3–4);
vols 3 & 4 of 4 vols 1911 (Collected works vols 5–6); vol 1 of 3 vols
1911 (The Muses Lib, never completed?); vol 1 of 4 vols 1912 (‘Lib
edn’); vol 3 of 4-vols 1912 (‘Lib edn’); pt 2 of 12. 1913 (sheets from
‘Silver Lib’ edn); vol 2 of 4 vols 1914 (‘Lib edn’); in 1 vol 1918 (‘Cheap
edn’), rptd 1923.
The lovers of Gudrun: a poem. Boston 1870. Excerpt from pt 3 of The
earthly paradise, made up of ‘Author’s edn’ sheets with pagination
as in the original edn.
Love is enough: or the freeing of Pharamond: a morality.‘1873’
[1872]; Boston 1873 (from imported Eng sheets); Boston 1873
(‘Author’s edn’, ‘Popular edn’ new set in US); 1873 (2nd edn); 1873
(3rd edn); 1889 (3rd edn); 1896 (new edn, ‘The poetical works of
Morris’, bound in with Poems by the way); ‘1897’ [1898]
(Kelmscott Press); 1911 (Collected works vol 9, bound in with
Poems by the way).
England and the Turks. The Daily News 26 Oct 1876. Rptd in Morris:
artist, writer, socialist, see Collections and selections, above.
The story of Sigurd the Volsung and the fall of the Niblungs.‘1877’
[1876]; Boston ‘1877’ [1876] (from imported Eng sheets); 1877 (2nd
edn); Boston 1879 (re-set US edn); 1880 (3rd edn); Boston 1881;
Boston 1887 (4th edn); 1887 (4th edn re-set); Boston 1891 (5th edn);
1893 (5th edn); Boston 1896 (5th edn); London and New York 1896
(5th edn, The poetical works of Morris); illustr E. Burne-Jones