Under the Hill. In 1907, the original manuscript was published and entitled The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser. John Heath-Stubbs wrote a poem on the legend called " Tannhauser's End" (Collected Poems page 294). Aleister Crowley wrote a play called Tannhauser which follows the characters Tannhauser and Venus. English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Laus Veneris" ("In Praise of Venus") is a telling of the Tannhauser legend. Swinburne also composed the medieval French epigraph that purports to be its source. William Morris retells the story in "The Hill of Venus", the final story of his epic 1868-1870 poem The Earthly Paradise. Guy Willoughby in his Art and Christhood asserts that the blossoming staff of the eponymous Young King in Oscar Wilde's fairy tale evokes that of Tannhäuser. H.G. Wells' Sleeper watches an adaption in The Sleeper Awakes (1910). He also references it in his short story The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898). Author Philip José Farmer references Tannhäuser and Venusberg in the 1967 sci-fi novella Riders of the Purple Wage. The plot of Neil Gaiman's story "Neverwhere" broadly mirrors the Tannhauser legend, as does the BBC TV series Life on Mars. See also Medieval German literature Minnesang The Woman Who Had No Shadow References Bibliography External links Wikipedia of the Rindsmaul family Laus Veneris, and other poems (1900), Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 Encyclopædia Britannica Online - Tannhäuser James G. Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson. Rivendale Press, May 2000. A Translation of Grimm's Saga No. 171 "Tannhäuser" a collection of his works (original language) Medieval German knights Medieval legends Minnesingers Middle High German literature Male composers 13th-century German poets