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

The 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

There 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]

(rem: at the bottom of the list in Morris Archive a link that does not work! check!)

Shortly summarize these reviews