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William Morris and Keats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Clarice Short*
Affiliation:
Fort Hays Kansas Slate College

Extract

When William Morris's relation to Keats has been noticed at all, it has usually been treated in an off-hand way. Sidney Colvin and J. W. Mackail recognized it without going into particulars. Others have detected an occasional resemblance in detail without noting that this represented a trend.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1944

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References

1 Cf. Sidney Colvin, John Keats, pp. 438, 470, 539; J. W. Mackail, Life of William Morris, i, 200, 219.

2 Cf. Alfred Noyes, William Morris, pp. 44, 77; John Drinkwater, William Morris, A Critical Study, pp. 44, 66; George Saintsbury, Corrected Impressions, No. xx, p. 190; Dixon Scott, “The First Morris, ”in Men of Letters, p. 288.

3 Cf. Mackail, Morris, i, 6 ff. and Colvin, Keats, p. 22.

4 Mackail, Morris, i, 10, and Saintsbury, “Mr. William Monis, ”in Corrected Impressions, p. 187.

5 Keats, “Endymion, ”i, 131–134; Morris, “L'Envoi ”to Earthly Paradise, vi, 331.

6 May Morris, Morris's Collected Works, iii, xviii–xxi; iv, ix; v, xxii, and Claude Lee Finney, Evolution of Keats's Poetry, i, 255–256, ii, 496 ff.

7 Keats, “When I Have Fears, ”p. 277, and Morris, “L'Envoi ”to Earthly Paradise, vi, 333.

8 Claude Lee Finney, Evolution of Keats's Poetry, ii, 571,

9 Aymer Vallance, William Morris, Bis Art, His Writings, and His Public Life, p. 13.

10 “The Eve of St. Agnes, ”xxiv.

11 “Jason, ”xv, 1012–13.

12 “Interlude for April, ”iii, 241 (also, “Jason, ”xiii. 129–131, and xvii. 250–251).

13 Dixon Scott, “The First Morris, ”in Men of Letters, p. 190.

14 “The Eve of St. Agnes, ”xxv. 1–5.

15 “The Lovers of Gudrun, ”v, 284.

16 “Endymion, ”ii. 593–595.

17 “Jason, ”x. 267–272.

18 Finney, Evolution of Keats's Poetry, ii, 571.

19 “The Eve of St. Mark, ”p. 241.

20 “The Ring Given to Venus, ”vi, 175.

21 “The Eve of St. Mark, ”p. 241.

22 “February, ”vi, 176.

23 “How Many Bards, ”Sonnet iv, p. 32.

24 “Doom of King Acrisius, ”iii, 204.

25 “Interlude for June, ”iv, 87.

26 “Endymion, ”ii. 133–136.

27 Interlude in Earthly Paradise, iv, 159.

28 “Ode to a Nightingale, ”p. 192.

29 “The Golden Apples, ”vi, 10.

30 “To Autumn, ”p. 205.

31 “Interlude for August, ”iv, 188.

32 “To Autumn, ”p. 205.

33 “The Man Born to Be King, ”iii, 153.

34 “Hyperion, ”i. 1.

35 “Cupid and Psyche, ”iv, 53.

36 “La Belle Dame sans Merci, ”verses 1 and 12.

37 “Jason, ”vü. 289–290.

38 “Jason, ”iv. 582.

39 “I Stood Tiptoe, ”11. 153–156.

40 “Hill of Venus, ”vi, 290.

41 “Isabella, ”xxxix, 11. 307–310.

42 “Spellbound, ”i, 104.

43 “The Eve of St. Agnes, ”xiii, xv. 183; “Jason, ”xvii. 1157–62.

44 “Isabella, ”xxxv. 172, xxxvi. 173, xxxvii. 173.

45 “The Blue Closet, ”i, 113.

46 “Endymion, ”i. 698–701.

47 “Spellbound, ”i, 105.

48 “Sleep and Poetry, ”11. 85–87.

49 “Prologue ”to The Earthly Paradise, iii, 51.

50 “Ode on Melancholy, ”p. 206.

51 “Prologue, ”iii, 55.

52 “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, ”p. 277.

53 “Jason, ”xv. 344–346.

54 “La Belle Dame sans Merci, ”p. 244 ff.

55 “Hapless Love, ”xxiv, 347 ff.