"The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems" by William Morris is a collection of poetry. The poems that make up the collection, many of which are dramatic monologues, fall into three groups. The first group consists of four poems of legends of King Arthur and his court. The ancient setting permitted Morris to discuss issues of love and sexual desire with a forthrightness uncommon in Victorian literature. A second group of poems, based on the 14th-century Chroniques of Jean Froissart, shows England's decline at the conclusion of the Hundred Years' War. The poems in the third group are highly evocative, yet their meanings are elusive.