Poems By The Way

In 1891, after founding the Kelmscott Press with Emery Walker, Morris decided to issue a new volume of poetry, his first since 1876, to be published by the new press. The modesty casual title, Poems By the Way, reflected the fact that he had first drafted a number of its poems around 1870 or shortly hereafter. Several of these recast Scandinavian accounts of ill-fated love in artful stanzaic and metrical variations ("The Wooing of Hallbiorn," "The Raven and the King’s Daughter," "‘The Lay of Christine," "Hildebrand and Hellelil," and "Hafbur and Signy"). May Morris recalled her father’s wry remark that ‘A man shouldn’t write poetry after fifty’ (Artist, Writer, Socialist, I, 496). Morris was fifty in 1884, the year he left the Social Democratic Federation to co-found the Socialist League, and fifty-seven in 1891. During the intervening years he had continued to write poetry all the same, much of it with a social and communal focus, and in more accessible forms, but he sought to write for a literate ‘popular’ audience, and speak to it about certain recurrent human needs – for social justice (‘fellowship’), and for a new aesthetic, one that might express the harmonies of a better social order, and encourage forms of affection wider than individual and familial ‘love’. The volume is thus a composite reflecting several of his complementary interests between 1870 and 1891, in the aspirations embedded in the folk literature of a historical people, and the need for their descendents to frame revolutionary hopes as part of a historical continuum.* Книга «Poems By The Way» автора Уильям Моррис оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 6.00 из 10.
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