concept for article: The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems
The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems is a collection of poems, written by William Morris and first published in 1858.
Bibliographic information
editThe Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems was first published in 1858 by
Dedication: to my friend D.G. Rosetti etc.
The book contains the following poems:
- 'The Defence of Guenevere' (
Contemporary critics
editThere are six known contemporary reviews:[1][2]
- short (unsigned) notice in The Spectator, February 1858, xxxi, p. 238
- unsigned review in The Literary Gazette, March 1858, xlii, pp. 226-227 (probably written by Richard Garnett)
- unsigned review in The Athenaeum, 3 April 1858, no. 1588, pp. 427-428 (probably written by Henry Chorley)
- unsigned review in The Tablet, April 1858, xix, p. 266 (probably written by John Hungerford Pollen)
- unsigned review in Saturday Review, 20 November 1858, vi, pp. 506-507
- unsigned review in Ecclesiastic and Theologian, vol 20, March 1858, pp. 159-170: Morris's Defence of Guenevere[3]
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Shortly summarize these reviews
Footnotes
edit- ^ Schofield (1974), pp. 27.
- ^ See also "Supplementary Reviews to the Defence of Guenevere". William Morris Archive. Archived from the original on 2021-12-31. Retrieved 2021-12-31. for full versions of the reviews
- ^ "Morris's Defence of Guenevere". Ecclesiastic and Theologian. 20: 159–170. March 1858.
Sources
editSchofield, John (1974). "'The Defence of Guenevere' and Contemporary Critics". Journal of William Morris Studies. 3 (1): 27–30. {{cite journal}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)