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Literary and Mythological Verse

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The Earthly Paradise, Part I (March–August) — William MorrisWilliam Morris's The Earthly Paradise, Part I (1868) — March through August of the Victorian verse cycle of twenty-four framed mythological tales, opening with the Prologue of the wandering Norsemen and running from Atalanta's Race through Ogier the Dane.The Earthly Paradise, Part II (September–November) — William MorrisWilliam Morris's The Earthly Paradise, Part II (1870) — September through November of the Victorian verse cycle of twenty-four framed mythological tales, including the book-length Lovers of Gudrun, Morris's verse retelling of the Icelandic Laxdæla Saga.The Earthly Paradise, Part III (December–February) — William MorrisWilliam Morris's The Earthly Paradise, Part III (1870) — December through February, concluding the Victorian verse cycle of twenty-four framed mythological tales, with the tales of Hercules, Aslaug, and Bellerophon and the poem's closing Epilogue and L'Envoi.