Also See: "The Evensong of Upmeads" Lyrics by William Morris original music by Kurt Henry William Morris Home Page Modern Fine Printing "Friends In Need Meet In The Wildwood" from The Well at the World's End Kelmscott Press, issued June 4, 1896 Paper, 28.5 X 20.4 cm leaf (High quality photographs of the below page and other pages are coming soon. Please check back).
(Click on picture for higher resolution image)	This book was longer in production than any other Kelmscott edition. The borders were designed by William Morris, with an illustration by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. This and Sigurd the Volsung are my favorite Kelmscotts because of their ornate style and because the texts are original. The Well at the World's End is extremely important because it is the best of the romances and because it represents the beginning of a new genre - fantasy. The Chaucer type, designed by Morris, works better in both of these books than it does in the Chaucer itself because it genuinely seems to complement the texts. Both books richly deserve to be rediscovered and venerated by future generations.
"The Evensong of Upmeads" Listen to "The Evensong of Upmeads" lyrics by William Morris original music by Kurt Henry The song, "The Evensong of Upmeads," from The Well at the World's End seemingly composed itself out of its own lyricism and from my own desire to make some small contribution within the world of Morris. I can only hope that he would find it tolerable. Although the minor chords sound melodramatic to moderns, they have not always sounded so, which obliges me to suggest that there is no real conflict between the lovers; they are merely teasing each other in what seems to be a pastoral interlude in the war between the sexes. I have taken the liberty of creating a refrain which is not in the poem, although it was largely constructed of words from the poem.