Table of Contents

Preface; Chronology; Introduction: 'the embodiment of dreams'; 1. 'That old beautiful land': the early romances; 2. 'The dread eternity': The Earthly Paradise; 3. 'The dawn that waketh the dead': Sigurd the Volsung; 4. 'A true conception of history': the political romances; 5. 'The very garden of God': the last romances; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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This 1987 book investigates the dismissal of William Morris's romances as self-indulgent fantasy.