Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic

Name: Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic
Author: Douglas, James

Douglas, James

Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography; Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914

Transcribed from the 1904 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price,
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  [Picture: Theodore Watts-Dunton, from a painting by Miss H. B. Norris]





                          THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON


                           POET NOVELIST CRITIC

                                    BY
                              JAMES DOUGLAS

              [Picture: Decorative graphic, Natura Benigna]

                      WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

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                                  LONDON

                           HODDER AND STOUGHTON

                            27 PATERNOSTER ROW

                                   1904




SYNOPSIS

                                                          PAGE
INTRODUCTION                                                 1
                          CHAPTER I
THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER                                    11
                          CHAPTER II
COWSLIP COUNTRY                                             26
                         CHAPTER III
THE CRITIC IN THE BUD                                       40
                          CHAPTER IV
CHARACTERS IN THE MICROCOSM                                 50
                          CHAPTER V
EARLY GLIMPSES OF THE GYPSIES                               61
                          CHAPTER VI
SPORT AND WORK                                              65
                         CHAPTER VII
EAST ANGLIA                                                 72
                         CHAPTER VIII
LONDON                                                      87
                          CHAPTER IX
GEORGE BORROW                                               95
                          CHAPTER X
THE ACTED DRAMA                                            117
                          CHAPTER XI
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI                                     138
                         CHAPTER XII
WILLIAM MORRIS                                             170
                         CHAPTER XIII
THE ‘EXAMINER’                                             183
                         CHAPTER XIV
THE ‘ATHENÆUM’                                             190
                          CHAPTER XV
THE GREAT BOOK OF WONDER                                   228
                         CHAPTER XVI
A HUMOURIST UPON HUMOUR                                    242
                         CHAPTER XVII
‘THE LIFE POETIC’                                          262
                        CHAPTER XVIII
AMERICAN FRIENDS: LOWELL, BRET HARTE, AND OTHERS           295
                         CHAPTER XIX
WALES                                                      312
                          CHAPTER XX
IMAGINATIVE AND DIDACTIC PROSE                             321
                         CHAPTER XXI
THE METHODS OF PROSE FICTION                               345
                         CHAPTER XXII

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Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic

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