THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON

p. viiSYNOPSIS

p. xiILLUSTRATIONS

p. xviNATURA BENIGNA

p. 1Introduction

p. 11Chapter I THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER

p. 26Chapter II COWSLIP COUNTRY

p. 40Chapter III THE CRITIC IN THE BUD

p. 50Chapter IV CHARACTERS IN THE MICROCOSM

p. 61Chapter V EARLY GLIMPSES OF THE GYPSIES

p. 65Chapter VI SPORT AND WORK

p. 72Chapter VII EAST ANGLIA

p. 87Chapter VIII LONDON

p. 95Chapter IX GEORGE BORROW

p. 117Chapter X THE ACTED DRAMA

p. 138Chapter X DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

p. 170Chapter XII WILLIAM MORRIS

p. 183Chapter XIII THE ‘EXAMINER’

p. 190Chapter XIV THE ‘ATHENÆUM’

p. 228Chapter XV THE GREAT BOOK OF WONDER

p. 242Chapter XVI A HUMOURIST UPON HUMOUR

p. 262Chapter XVII ‘THE LIFE POETIC’

p. 295Chapter XVIII AMERICAN FRIENDS: LOWELL, BRET HARTE, AND OTHERS

p. 312Chapter XIX WALES

p. 321Chapter XX IMAGINATIVE AND DIDACTIC PROSE

p. 345Chapter XXI THE METHODS OF PROSE FICTION

p. 363Chapter XXII A STORY WITH TWO HEROINES

p. 372Chapter XXIII THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER IN RELIGION

p. 382Chapter XXIV THE RENASCENCE OF WONDER IN HUMOUR

p. 389Chapter XXV GORGIOS AND ROMANIES

p. 393Chapter XXVI ‘THE COMING OF LOVE’

p. 422Chapter XXVII “CHRISTMAS AT THE ‘MERMAID’”

p. 442Chapter XXVIII CONCLUSION

p. 459Index

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