See also:SIR See also:LEWIS See also:MORRIS (1833–1907)
, See also:British poet, eldest son of See also:Lewis See also:Edward See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Morris and See also:Sophia, daughter of See also:John See also:Hughes of See also:Carmarthen, was See also:born at Penbryn in 1833
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His See also:great grandfather, Lewis Morris (1700-1765), had been a well-known Welsh poet and See also:antiquary
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He was educated at See also:Sherborne School and Jesus See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he took first classes in See also:classics (1853 and 1855)
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He won the See also:chancellor's See also:prize for an See also:English See also:essay in 1858, was called to the See also:bar in 1861, and elected hon. See also:fellow of his old college in 1877
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He practised for twenty years as a See also:conveyancing counsel, retiring from active legal See also:work in 1881
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He was energetic on behalf of educational movements in See also:Wales, and contested Welsh constituencies in the Liberal See also:interest, but without success
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He was knighted in 1896, and became also a See also:Jubilee-medallist and See also:Knight of the Redeemer of See also:Greece
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Comparatively See also:late in See also:life See also:Sir Lewis Morris made his See also:appearance as a writer of See also:verse with three See also:series of See also:miscellaneous poems, called Songs of Two Worlds, published respectively in 1872, 1874 and 1875
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These little volumes proved him to have a refined See also:taste and a See also:gentle metrical fluidity, which soon won for his work considerable popularity
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In 1876 and 1877 he made a more important venture with The Epic of Hades, an See also:attempt to re-tell the stories of Hellenic See also:mythology with a certain See also:modern and allegorical setting
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This work, though it is somewhat strained in sentiment and is not See also:free from See also:artistic infelicities, contains his best verse and has passages of undeniable force and effect
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His later work follows too closely upon the See also:influence of See also:Tennyson, from which he is never altogether free; but his See also:earnest
didacticism, genial optimism and evident sincerity have' given his work a thoroughly wholesome moral influence
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Among his other books were Gwen (188o), Songs Unsung (1883), Gycia (1886), A See also:Vision of See also:Saints (189o), Idylls and Lyrics (1896) and The New Rambler (1906)
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He died at Carmarthen on the 13th of See also:November 1907
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