The House Of The Wolfings

William Morris wrote a fantasy book titled The House of the Wolfings. It is written in an archaic style and contains a significant amount of poetry. It is a beautifully rebuilt depiction of the life of the Germanic Gothic tribes. Morris integrates his own idealistic beliefs with the culture and language of his subjects as it was truly understood at the time. He depicts them as being simple and hardworking people who were moved to heroism by the attacks of imperial Rome to protect their families and freedom. The House Of The Wolfings is regarded as a classic book and can be read by the readers of several age groups. Some of the other classics by William Morris include: The Hollow Land (1856), The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems (1858), The Life and Death of Jason (1867), The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870), A Book of Verse (1870), Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1872), The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1877), Hopes and Fears For Art (1882), The Pilgrims of Hope (1885), A Dream of John Ball (1888), Signs of Change (1888), A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse (1889), The Roots of the Mountains (1889).