Sir Lewis Morris was a popular poet

Poet

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 of the Anglo-Welsh school

Anglo-Welsh literature

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. Lewis Morris was born in Carmarthen

Carmarthen

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, Carmarthenshire

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, in south-west Wales

Wales

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 to Lewis Edward William Morris and Sophia Hughes. He studied classics at Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College, Oxford

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, graduating in 1856: the first student in thirty years to obtain first-class honours in both his preliminary

Honour Moderations

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 and his final examinations. He then became a lawyer. In 1868 he married Florence Pollard. He was knighted by Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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 in 1895, and narrowly missed being appointed Poet Laureate

Poet Laureate

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, possibly because of his association with Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

. One of his most famous poems is "Love's Suicide".

Principal works

• Songs of Two Worlds 1875
• The Epic of Hades 1877
• Gwen: A Drama in Monologue Six Acts. 1879
• The Ode of Life 1880
• Poetical Works 1882
• Songs Unsung 1883
• Gycia: A Tragedy in Five Acts 1886
• Songs of Britain 1887
• Selections from the Works of Sir Lewis Morris 1897
• Harvest Tide: A Book of Verse 1900
• The New Rambler from Desk to Platform 1905

External links

• Works by or about Lewis Morris at Internet Archive
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