Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

And ever the great bell overheadBoomd in the wind a knell for the dead Though no one tolld it a knell for the dead The Blue Closet William Morris 18341896 autho... » 

And ever the great bell overheadBoomd in the wind a knell for the dead Though no one tolld it a knell for the dead The Blue Closet William Morris 18341896 author of such prose romancesas The Well at the Worlds End was early associated with the PreRaphaelites as is nowhere more evident than in the Medievalist verses and versedramasin his earliest collection of poetry The Defense of Guenevere and OtherPoems. Here Morris explores many of the ideas and themes that would providecontinued inspiration throughout his long and influential career especiallythose arising out of the Arthurian tradition such as King Arthurs Tomb andSir Galahad A Christmas Mystery. «