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William Morris

Lifespan
1834 – 1896
Nationality
British
Active
1856 – 1897
Works held
12

William Morris (1834–1896) was a towering Victorian figure, designer, poet, printer and socialist pioneer, whose late prose romances helped invent modern fantasy. Works like The Wood Beyond the World and The Well at the World's End created wholly imagined secondary worlds in a deliberately archaic style, a direct and acknowledged influence on Tolkien, Lewis and the whole epic-fantasy tradition that followed.

The works

  1. 1897
    Cover of The Sundering Flood The Sundering Flood Cover of The Water of the Wondrous Isles The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  2. 1896
    Cover of The Well at the World's End: A Tale The Well at the World's End: A Tale Cover of The World of Romance The World of Romance
  3. 1895
    Cover of Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
  4. 1894
    Cover of The Wood Beyond the World The Wood Beyond the World
  5. 1891
    Cover of The Story of the Glittering Plain The Story of the Glittering Plain
  6. 1890
    Cover of News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest
  7. 1889
    Cover of The House of the Wolfings The House of the Wolfings T The House of the Wolfings Cover of The Roots of the Mountains The Roots of the Mountains
  8. 1856
    Cover of The Hollow Land The Hollow Land

Wrote across

1850s1880s1890s

Recurring themes

FantasyAdventureUtopiaSocial SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonC. M. KornbluthCarl JacobiCharles A. StearnsEdmond HamiltonErnest BramahFrank R. StocktonH. G. Wells

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsJules VerneMark TwainLuis SenarensEdward BellamyAndrew LangFrank R. StocktonGeorge MeredithLewis CarrollGeorge MacDonald

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