Index
Reading edition
Abbey, Edwin, 122, 301
Abershaw, Jerry, 100
Abiogenesis, 373
Absolute humour: see Humour, absolute and relative
Accent, English verse governed by, 344
Acceptance, instinct of, 14; Horace as poet of, 15
Acton, Lord, place given ‘Aylwin’ by, 5
Actors, two types of, 127
Actresses, English prejudice against, 131
Adams, Davenport, 132
Addison, ‘softness of touch’ in portraiture, 350
‘Adonais,’ 157
‘Æneid,’ 208
Æschylus, reference to, 15, 45, 324
‘Agamemnon,’ 323
Alabama, Lowell and, 295
Aldworth, 286, 293
Allen, Grant, 207, 269, 309, 361
Allingham, William, 213
Ambition v. Nature-Worship, 103
America, Watts-Dunton’s friends in, 295; his feelings towards, 297, 301
Anacharsis, 384
Anapæsts, Swinburne and, 383
Anglomania and Anglophobia, Lowell’s, 299
Anglo-Saxon, law-abidingness of, 309; conception of life, 381
Animals, man’s sympathy with 38–9, 82–86
‘Anne Boleyn,’ Watts-Dunton’s criticism of Lilian Adelaide Neilson’s acting in, 117
Anonymity in criticism, 209
Anthropology, 14
Apemantus, 250
Appleton, Prof., Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—met at Bell Scott’s and Rossetti’s; Hegel on the brain; asks Watts to write for ‘Academy,’ 187; wants him to pith the German transcendentalists in two columns, 188; in a rage; Watts explains why he has gone into enemy’s camp, 201; a Philistine, 202
‘Arda Viraf,’ 219
‘Argonauts of the New Age,’ 457
Argyll, Duchess of: see Louise, Princess
Argyll, Duke of, 291: see Lorne, Marquis of
Aristocrats, in ‘Aylwin,’ 351
Aristotle, unities of, 18; 177; 340, 341
Armada, 423
‘Armadale,’ 348
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 219, 228
Arnold, Matthew, ‘The Scholar Gypsy,’ Borrow’s criticism of, 108; Rhona Boswell and, 114; 157
Artifice, 239
Athenæum, 1–4; editor of, 10; seventieth birthday of, 210–213; influence of, 452; Watts-Dunton’s connection with, 6, 173, 188, 212–27, 315, 418, 454
Augustanism, 15, 16; pyramid of, 23
Austen, Jane, 367
‘Australia’s Mother,’ 4
‘Ave Atque Vale,’ 157
Avon, River, Watts-Dunton’s love for, 31
‘Aylwin,’ Renascence of Wonder exemplified in, 2; popularity of, 7; principles of romantic art expressed in, 8; Justin McCarthy’s opinion of, 9; ‘Renascence of Wonder,’ original title of, 11; attempted identification of characters in, 50, 88; ‘Veiled Queen,’ dominating influence of author, 56; Cyril Aylwin, identification with A. E. Watts, 87; genesis of, 89; nervous phases in, 90; D’Arcy, identification with Rossetti, 139, 140–45; description of Rossetti in, 165–169; landslip in, 270; Welsh acceptation of, 312–318; Snowdon ascent, 317; ‘Encyc. Brit.’ on, 321; naïveté in style of, 328; youthfulness of, 328; richness in style, 330–38; Galimberti, Mme., criticism of, 338; ‘Athenæum’ canons observed in, 338, 343; begun in metre, 342; critical analysis of, 345–362; ‘softness of touch’ in portraiture, 351; love-passion, 362; Swinburne on, 363; Meredith on, 364; Groome on, 367; novel of the two Bohemias, 368; editions of, 368, 377; enigmatic nature of, 373; Dr. Nicoll on, 375; Celtic element in, 378; Jacottet on, 380; two heroines of, 363; spirituality of, 372, 375, 378, 380; inner meaning of, 372–81; heart-thought of contained in the ‘Veiled Queen,’ 374; ‘Saturday Review’ on, 377; motive of, 389, ‘Arvon’ edition, restoration of excised passages, 445–50; modern Sufism of, 454; quotations from, 330, 331, 333, 336
Aylwin, Cyril, 168
Aylwin, Henry, at 16 Cheyne Walk, 165; autobiographical element in, 322, 356; see ‘Aylwin’; his mother, 352
Aylwin, Philip: see Watts, J. O.
Aylwin, Percy, contrasted with Henry Aylwin, 361; the part he plays in the ‘Coming of Love,’ 401–11; autobiographical element in—see description of Swinburne swimming, 268
Aylwinism, Mr. Balfour and, 373, 446, 450; growth of, 445
Bacon, 43
Badakhshân, ruby hills of, 329
Balfour, A. J., Aylwinism and, 373, 446, 450
Ballads, old, wonder in, 16
‘Ballads and Sonnets,’ Rossetti’s, 271
Balliol, Jowett’s dinner parties at, 280
Balzac, 18
Banville, his ‘Le Baiser,’ 133
Basevi, 95
Bateson, Mary, her paper on Crab House Nunnery, 53
Baudelaire, 135
Baynes, invites Watts to write for ‘Encyc. Brit.,’ 256–7
Beddoes, 126
‘Bedouin Child, The,’ 448
‘Belfast News-Letter,’ 4
‘Belle Dame Sans Merci, La,’ wonder and mystery of, 19
Bell, Mackenzie: on Watts-Dunton’s study of music: see ‘Poets and Poetry of the Century,’ 38: also ‘Shadow on the Window Blind’
‘Bells, The,’ Watts on, 119
Benson, A. C, his monograph on Rossetti, 138–40
Berners, Isopel, 364, 369
Beryl-Songs, in ‘Rose Mary,’ 139–40
Betts Bey, 85
Bible, The, Watts-Dunton’s essay on, 228–41
Bible Rhythm, 238
Biogenesis, 373
Bird, Dr., 306
Birdwood, Sir George, 409
Bisset, animal trainer, 38
Black, William, 119; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 185; their resemblance to each other, 185; an amusing mistake, 186
Blackstone, 23, 309
Blank verse, 239
Boar’s Hill, 282
Bodleian, 282
Body, its functions—humour of, 387
Bognor, 91
Bohemians, in ‘Aylwin,’ 351
Bohemias, Novel of the Two, ‘Aylwin’ as, 368
Borrow, George, 10; method of learning languages, 58; Watts-Dunton’s description of, 95–106, 108–16; characteristics of, 99–106, 368; his gypsy women scenic characters, 390; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—his first meeting with, 95; his shyness, 99; Watts attacks it; tries Bamfylde Moore Carew; then tries beer, the British bruiser, philology, Ambrose Gwinett, etc., 100; a stroll in Richmond Park; visit to ‘Bald-Faced Stag’; Jerry Abershaw’s sword; his gigantic green umbrella, 101–2; tries Whittlesea Mere; Borrow’s surprise; vipers of Norman Cross; Romanies and vipers, 104; disclaims taint of printers’ ink; ‘Who are you?’ 105; an East Midlander; the Shales Mare, 106; Cromer sea best for swimming; rainbow reflected in Ouse and Norfolk sand, 106; goes to a gypsy camp; talks about Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar-Gypsy,’ 108; resolves to try it on gypsy woman; watches hawk and magpie, 109; meets Perpinia Boswell; ‘the popalated gypsy of Codling Gap,’ 110; Rhona Boswell, girl of the dragon flies; the sick chavo; forbids Pep to smoke, 112; description of Rhona, 113; the Devil’s Needles; reads Glanville’s story; Rhona bored by Arnold, 114; hatred of tobacco, 115; last sight of Borrow on Waterloo Bridge, 115; sonnet on, 116
Boswell, Perpinia, 110–12
Boswell, Rhona, her ‘Haymaking Song,’ 33–5; her prototype, first meeting with, 63; description from ‘Aylwin,’ 64; East Anglia and ‘Cowslip Land’ linked by, 72, 108; description of in unpublished romance, 110–15; her beauty, 113; courageous nature of, 366, 406; presented dramatically, 356; type of English heroine, 366; Tennyson’s ‘Maud’ compared with, 413; George Meredith on, 418; humour of, 421; ‘Rhona’s Letter,’ 402–5; rhyme-pattern of same, 419
Boswell, Sylvester, 110
Bounty, mutineers of, 310
Boxhill, Meredith’s house at, 283
Bracegirdle, Mrs., 131
‘Breath of Avon: To English-speaking Pilgrims on Shakespeare’s Birthday,’ 31
British Association, 373, 445, 450
Brontë, Charlotte and Emily, Nature instinct of, 97; novels of, 346, 367
Brown, Charles Brockden, 308
Brown, Lucy Madox: see Rossetti, Mrs. W. M.
Brown, Madox, 10, 12, 35, 170; his Eisteddfod, 136; portrait of, story connected with, 274
Brown, Oliver Madox, 274–6
Browne, Sir Thomas, 337
Browning, Robert, 4; compared with Victor Hugo, 126; 144; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—chaffs him in ‘Athenæum’; chided by Swinburne, 222, sees him at Royal Academy private view; Lowell advises him to slip away; bets he will be more cordial than ever; Lowell astonished at his magnanimity, 222–23; the review in question, ‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’ 223–26
Brynhild, 365
‘Brynhild on Sigurd’s Funeral Pyre,’ 366
Buchanan, Robert, his attacks on Rossetti, 145–6; Watts-Dunton’s impeachment of, 148
‘Buddhaghosha,’ Parables of, 218
Buddhism, 14
Bull, John, 224, 299, 300
Burbage, 124
Burgin, G. B., his interview with Watts-Dunton, 205
Burns, Robert, 38
Butler, Bishop, share in Renascence of Wonder, 22
‘B.V.,’ 161
‘Byles the Butcher,’ 215–16
Byron, 307
‘By the North Sea,’ 271
Caine, Hall, Rossetti ‘Recollections’ by, 150, 151–4
Calderon, 219
Cam, Ouse and, 79
‘Cambridge Chronicle,’ 51
Cambridge University, 1; George Dyer, Frend, Hammond and, 40; Prince of Wales at, 67
Campbell, Lady Archibald, open-air plays organized by, 132
Capri girl, Rhona Boswell like, 110
Carew, Bamfylde Moore, 99
Carlyle, Thomas, River Ouse, libellous description of, 27, 28; his heresy of ‘work,’ 68–71; ‘Frederick the Great,’ Watts-Dunton on, 192
Carr, Comyns, contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184
Casket Lighthouse, girl in—poems by Swinburne and Watts-Dunton, 413
Cathay, pyramid of, 25
‘Catriona,’ 217
‘Caught in the Ebbing Tide,’ 82
Cavendish, Ada, 118
‘Celebrities of the Century,’ memoir of Watts-Dunton in, 4
Celtic temper, ‘Aylwin,’ 313–15; 378; 398
Cervantes, Watts-Dunton on, 197, 246–52; 382
Chalk Farm, Westland Marston’s theatrical reunions at, 117; Parnassians at, 135
‘Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English Literature,’ Watts-Dunton’s ‘Renascence of Wonder’ article, 13, 20, 25; 173; Douglas, James, article on Watts-Dunton by, 393
‘Chambers’s Encyclopædia,’ article on Watts-Dunton in, 1; Watts-Dunton’s contributions to, 2; Sonnet, Watts-Dunton’s essay on, 205
Chamisso, 119
Channel Islands, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to, 268–9
Chapman, George, 267
Chaucer, his place in English poetry, 15, 43, 294, 394
Chelsea, Rossetti’s residence at, 137, 155, 161, 162, 165
Cheyne Walk, 16: see Chelsea
‘Children of the Open Air,’ 96, 97, 98, 116
Children, Rossetti on, 168
Chinese Cabinet, Rossetti’s, 267
‘Christabel,’ wonder and mystery of, 19; quotation from, 20
Christmas, ‘The Pines’ and, 93, 94; Rosicrucian, 94
“Christmas Tree at ‘The Pines,’ The,” 94
“Christmas at the ‘Mermaid,’” 32; metrical construction of, 422; Watts-Dunton’s preface to sixth edition, 424; written at Stratford-on-Avon, 423; opening chorus, 423; description of Shakespeare’s return to Stratford-on-Avon, 425–26; quotations from, 423–40; chief leit-motiv of, 436; Wassail Chorus, 438; ‘The Golden Skeleton,’ 428–34, 436–37; Raleigh and the Armada, 434–36; letter from Thomas Hardy about, 440–41
Circumstance, as villain, 125, 349; as humourist, 248; as harlequin, 387
Civilization, definition of, 71
Climate, English, Lowell on, 300
Clive, Kitty, 131
Cockerell, Sydney C., 179
Coincidence, long arm of, 348
Cole, Herbert, 440
Coleridge, S. T., 19, 20, 38; Watts-Dunton’s poetry, kinship to, 417, 419; 324, 338; on accent in verse, 344
Coleridge, Watts-Dunton’s Sonnet to, 417; Meredith’s opinion of same, 417
Collaboration, 415
Collier, Jeremy, 259
Collier, John P., 55
Collins, Wilkie, fiction of, 348, 367
Colonies, Watts-Dunton on, 273
Colvin, Sidney, 216
Comédie Française: see Théâtre Française
Comedy: and Farce, distinction between, 258; of repartee, 259
‘Coming of Love, The’: Renascence of Wonder exemplified in, 2; popularity of, 7; principles of Romantic Art explained in, 8; humour in, 24; locality of Gypsy Song, 33; publication of, 178, 389; history of, 395; inner meaning of, 400; form of, 411; opening sonnets, incident connected with, 413; quotations from, 402–11, 450; references to, 5, 361, 376
Common Prayer, Book of, 231
Congreve, his wit and humour, 258–60
Convincement, artistic, 325
Coombe, open-air plays at, 132
Cooper, Fenimore, 306
Corkran, Miss, 118, 278
Corneille, 132
Cosmic humour, 204
Cosmogony, New, 9; see Renascence of Wonder, 373
Cosmos, joke of, 386
Cowper, W., 38
Cowslip Country, Watts-Dunton’s association with, 27, 32
Craigie, Mrs., intellectual energy of the provinces asserted by, 50; 325
Criticism, anonymity in, 209, 210; new ideas in, 344
Cromer, 106; Swinburne and Watts-Dunton visit, 270
Cromwell, Oliver, Slepe Hall, supposed residence at, 35; his elder wine, 36–7
Cruikshank, 387
‘Cyclopædia of English Literature’: see ‘Chambers’s Cyclopædia’
‘Daddy this and Daddy that, It’s,’ 181
Dana, 371
Dante, 208, 293, 412, 418
D’Arcy (see Rossetti, D. G.), character in ‘Aylwin’ originally ‘Gordon’ (Gordon Hake), 91; Rossetti as prototype of, 91–2, 139, 140–45, 165, 336
Darwin, Charles, 52, 97, 373, 455
Darwin, Erasmus, 455
Death, Pain and, 173
‘Débats, Journal des,’ 27, 374, 400
De Castro, 141–43, 166: see Howell, C. A.
Decorative renascence, 16
Deerfoot, the Indian, race won at Cambridge by, 65
‘Defence of Guinevere,’ 177
Defoe, 307, 367
De Lisle, Leconte, 124
‘Demon Lover, The,’ wonder and mystery expressed by, 19
Dénouement in fiction, dialogue and, 346
De Quincey, 175, 197, 220, 340
Dereham, Borrow as, 95
Destiny, in drama, 125
Devil’s Needles, 113
Dialect in poetry—Meredith on Rhona Boswell’s letters, 418
Dialogue in fiction, 346
Dichtung, Wahrheit and, in ‘Aylwin,’ 50
Dickens, Lowell’s strictures on, 295; 325; hardness of touch in portraiture, 350; 367, 384, 387
‘Dickens returns on Christmas Day,’ 93
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on the sibilant in poetry, 287; substance and form in poetry, 341
Disraeli, ‘softness of touch’ in St. Aldegonde, 351; 353
‘Divina Commedia,’ 208
‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ Watts-Dunton’s criticism of, 218
Dogs, telepathy and, 82–6
Döppelganger idea, 30
Drama, surprise in, 120; famous actors and actresses, 117; table talk about ‘The Bells’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ 119: see Actors, Actresses, Æschylus, Banville, Burbage, Comedy and Farce, Congreve, Etheredge, Ford, Garrick, Got, Hamlet, Hugo, Kean, Marlowe, Robson, Shakspeare, Sophocles, Cyril Tourneur, Vanbrugh, Webster, Wells, Wycherley
Dramatic method in fiction, 346
Drayton, 438
Drury Lane, ragged girl in, 93
Dryden, the first great poet of ‘acceptance,’ 25
Du Chaillu, 52
Duffield, contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184
Dukkeripen, The Lovers’, 73
Dumas, 346
Du Maurier, 301
Dunn, Treffry, De Castro’s conduct to, 143; Watts-Dunton’s portrait painted by, 171; drawings by, 161, 277
Dunton, family of, 53
Dyer, George, St. Ives and, 40, 41
‘Earthly Paradise, The,’ 177
East Anglia, gypsies of, 63; Omar Khayyàm and, 79; 72–85; Watts-Dunton’s poem on, 82–5; road-girls in, 390
Eastbourne, Swinburne and Watts visit, 270
East Enders, in ‘Aylwin,’ 351
Eliot, George, 372
Ellis, F. S., 179
Emerson, 8
‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’ Watts-Dunton’s connection with, 1, 2, 4, 6, 205, 256; his Essay on Poetry, 340, 393; on Vanbrugh, 258
‘Encyclopædia, Chambers’s’: see ‘Chambers’s Encyc.’
England, its beloved dingles, 69–70; Borrow and, 102; love of the wind and, 370
‘English Illustrated Magazine,’ 287
Epic method in fiction, 346
Erckmann-Chatrian, ‘Juif Polonais’ by, 119
Erskine, his pet leeches, 39
‘Esmond,’ 328
Etheredge, 259
‘Examiner,’ contributors to, 184; Watts-Dunton’s articles in, 184
‘Fairy Glen,’ 315
‘Faith and Love,’ Wilderspin’s picture, 331
Falstaff, 382
Farce, comedy and, distinction between, 258
Farringford, 286
‘Father Christmas in Famine Street,’ 92
Febvre, as Saltabadil, 129
Fens, the, description of, 62
Feridun, 225
‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’ Watts’s review of, 223
Ferridoddin, 447
Fiction, genius at work in, 7; importance of, 208; beauty in, 221; atmosphere in, 308; ‘artistic convincement’ in, 325; methods of, 345 et seq.; epic and dramatic methods in, 346; ‘softness of touch’ in, 349 et seq.
Fielding, 305, 321, 347; ‘softness of touch’ in, 350, 367
Findlay, 52
FitzGerald, Edward, 79; Watts-Dunton’s Omarian poems, 80–1
Fitzroy Square, Madox Brown’s symposia at, 136–7
Flaubert, 89
‘Fleshly School of Poetry,’ 145–46
‘Florilegium Latinum,’ 147
Fonblanque, Albany, 185
Ford, spirit of wonder in, 16
‘Fortnightly Review,’ 442
Foxglove bells, fairies and, 74
France, Anatole, irony of, 204
France, dread of the wind, 370
Fraser, the brothers, water-colour drawings by, 33
Freedom, modern, 71
French Revolution, its relation to the Renascence of Wonder, 13
Frend, William, revolt against English Church, 40
Friendship, passion of, 146–48; sonnet (Dr. Gordon Hake), 444
Gainsborough, ‘softness of touch’ in portraits by, 350
Galimberti, Alice, her appreciation of Watts-Dunton’s work, 204, 338, 339, 347
Gamp, Mrs., 384
‘Garden of Sleep,’ 270
Garnett, Dr., his views on ‘Renascence of Wonder,’ 11; contributions to ‘Examiner,’ 184
Garrick, David, 127
Gaskell, Mrs., softness of touch, 350
Gautier, Théophile, 135, 136
Gawtry, in ‘Night and Morning,’ 349
Gelert, 82–5
Genius, wear and tear of, 175
Gentility, 25, 109
‘Gentle Art of Making Enemies,’ 353
German music, fascination of, 89
German romanticists, the terrible-grotesque in, 126
Gestaltung, Goethe on, 398
Ghost, laughter of, 387
Gladstone, 175
Glamour, Celtic, 313–15; 378
‘Glittering Plain,’ 173
Glyn, Miss, 118, 136
God as beneficent Showman, 387
Goethe, his critical system, Watts-Dunton’s treatise on Poetry compared to, 257; his theory as to enigmatic nature of great works of art, 373, 394; Gestaltung in art, 398
‘Golden Hand, The,’ 73
‘Gordon,’ Dr. G. Hake as, 91, 95
Gordon, Lady Mary, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton’s visits to, 270
Gorgios and Romanies, 389
Gosse, Edmund, contributes to ‘Examiner,’ 184; his study of Etheredge, 259
Got, M., Watts on his acting in ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ 127
Grande dame, Aylwin’s mother as type of, 352
Grant, James, 367
‘Graphic,’ 100
‘Grave by the Sea, A,’ 157
‘Great Thoughts,’ 61
Grecian Saloon, Robson at, 57
Greek mind, the, 44
Green Dining Room at 16 Cheyne Walk, 161
Groome, F. H., account of J. K. Watts by, 50; intimacy with Watts-Dunton, 68; Watts-Dunton and the gypsies, 72; Watts-Dunton’s obituary notice of, 79; on gypsies in ‘Aylwin,’ 351; ‘Kriegspiel,’ 364; his review of ‘Aylwin,’ 367, 372; gypsy humour—anecdote, 420
Grotesque, the terrible-, in art, 126
Gryengroes: see Gypsies
‘Gudgeon, Mrs.,’ humour of, 382–84, 388; prototype of, 383
‘Guide to Fiction,’ Baker’s, 374
Gwinett, Ambrose, 99
Gwynn, David, 423
‘Gypsy Folk-tales,’ 420
‘Gypsy Heather,’ 75
Gypsies, Watts-Dunton’s acquaintance with, 61, 67; superstitions of, 101; ‘prepotency of transmission’ in, 362; in ‘Aylwin,’ Groome on, 367; ‘Aylwin,’ gypsy characters of, 368; ‘Times’ on, 370; superiority of gypsy women to men, 392; characteristics of same, 390; music, 392; humour of, 420
Hacker, Arthur, A.R.A., illustration of ‘John the Pilgrim’ by, 415
Haggard, Rider, telepathy and dumb animals, 82; Watts-Dunton’s influence on writings of, 415
Haggis, the stabbing of, 193
Hake, Gordon, 12; ‘Aylwin,’ connection with, 90; physician to Rossetti, 90–91; his view of Rossetti’s melancholia and remorse—cock and bull stories about ill-treatment of his wife, 91; physician to Lady Ripon, 90; Borrow and Watts-Dunton introduced by, 95; poems connected with Watts-Dunton, 92; ‘The New Day’ (see that title)
Hake, Thomas St. E., author’s gratitude for assistance from, 10; 11, 12; ‘Notes and Queries,’ papers on ‘Aylwin’ by, 50; J. O. Watts identified with Philip Aylwin by, 51, 56; account of J. O. Watts by, 57; A. E. Watts, description by, 88; ‘Aylwin,’ genesis of, account by, 89; account of his father’s relations with Rossetti, 90–91; Hurstcote and Cheyne Walk, ‘green dining room,’ identified by, 161; William Morris, facts concerning, given by, 171
Hallam, Henry, 281
‘Hamlet,’ 293
Hammond, John, 40–1
‘Hand and Soul,’ 172
Hardy, Thomas, 27, 186, 325; letter from, 440–41
‘Harper’s Magazine,’ 122, 442
Harte, Bret, 301; Watts-Dunton’s estimate of, 302–11; histrionic gifts, 302; meeting with; drive round London music-halls, 303; ‘Holborn,’ ‘Oxford’; Evans’s supper-rooms; Paddy Green; meets him again at breakfast; a fine actor lost, 303
Hartley, on sexual shame, 255
Hawk and magpie, Borrow and, 109
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 305
‘Haymaking Song,’ 34
Hazlitt, W., 261
Hegel, 187
Heine, 232
Heminge and Condell, 293
Hemingford Grey, 33
Hemingford Meadow, description, 32, 33
Henley, W. E., 284, 322
Herder, 19
Herkomer, Prof. H., 100
Herne, the ‘Scollard,’ 402, 405
Herodotus, 340
Hero, English type of, 365
‘Hero, New,’ The, 287
Heroines, ‘Aylwin,’ a story with two, 363
Hesiod, 221, 394
Heywood, 439
Higginson, Col., 301
Hodgson, Earl, 30
Homer, 177, 208, 323, 355
Hood, Thomas, 1
Hopkins, John, 233
Horne, R. H., 137; challenge to Swinburne and Watts-Dunton, 269
Hotei, Japanese god of contentment, 385
‘House of the Wolfings,’ 173
Houssaye, Arsène, 218
Houghton, Lord, 183
Howell, Charles Augustus, prototype of De Castro, q.v.
Hueffer, Dr. F., Wagner exponent, 89; Watts-Dunton’s intimacy with, 89
Hueffer, Ford Madox, testimony to the friendship of Watts-Dunton and Rossetti, 154
Hugo, Victor, ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ 123–30; Watts-Dunton’s sonnet to, 129; dread of the wind, 370
Humboldt, 45
Humour, Watts-Dunton’s definition of, 196; absolute and relative, 16, 23, 384; cosmic, 204; renascence of wonder in, 242; metaphysical meaning of, 246–55
Hunt, Holman, 19
Hunt, Leigh, 261
Hunt, Rev. J., 49
‘Idler,’ interview with Watts-Dunton in, 205
‘Illuminated Magazine,’ 55
Imagination, lyrical and dramatic, in ‘Aylwin,’ 356–61
Imaginative power in ‘Aylwin,’ 345
Imaginative representation, 208, 398
Imperialism, 273
Incongruity, basis of humour, 385
Indecency, definition of, 255
Ingelow, Jean, 369
Interviewing, skit on, 263
Ireland, hero-worship in, 3
Irony, Anatole France’s, 204; in human intercourse, 251
Irving, Sir Henry, 118, 137
Isis, 332
Isle of Wight, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton visit, 270
Jacottet, Henri, 347, 374, 380
Jámi, 21
‘Jane Eyre,’ 342, 345
Japanese, race development of, 14
Jaques, 250
‘Jason,’ 177
Jefferson, Joseph, 121
Jeffrey, Francis, 2
Jenyns, Soame, 387
Jerrold, Douglas, 1, 53, 289
Jessopp, Dr., ‘Ups and Downs of an Old Nunnery,’ reference to Dunton family in, 53
Jewish-Arabian Renascence: see Renascence
‘John the Pilgrim,’ 416
Johnson, Dr., 326
Jolly-doggism, 199
Jones, Sir Edward Burne, 180
Jonson, Ben, 423
‘Joseph and His Brethren,’ 55
Joubert, 221
‘Journal des Débats,’ 27, 374
Journalism, mendacious, 263
Jowett, Benjamin, Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 279; pen portrait of, 280; see ‘Last Walk from Boar’s Hill,’ 282
‘Jubilee Greeting at Spithead to the Men of Greater Britain,’ 31
‘Juif-Polonais,’ 119
Kaf, mountains of, 286, 453
Kean, Edmund, 121, 127
Keats, John, spirit of wonder in poetry of, 19, 293; richness of style, 329
Kelmscott Manor, Rossetti’s residence at, 155, 161, 162, 164, 165; identification of Hurstcote with, 170; causeries at, 173
Kelmscott Press, 178, 181
Kernahan, Coulson, 56, 413
Kew, Lord, Thackeray’s, 351
Keynes, T., 267
Khayyàm, Omar, ‘Toast to,’ 79, 81; Sonnet on, 81; ‘The Pines,’ Groome and, 79
‘Kidnapped,’ Watts-Dunton’s review of, 215; letter from Stevenson concerning same, 216
‘King Lear,’ 126, 323, 355
Kisāgotamī, 456
‘Kissing the May Buds,’ 406
Knight, Joseph, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 60; as dramatic critic, 122, 123
Knowles, James, 290: see also ‘Nineteenth Century’
‘Kriegspiel,’ 364
‘Kubla Khan,’ wonder and mystery of, 19, 20
Kymric note, in ‘Aylwin,’ 313–15
Lamb, Charles, 41, 59, 250, 387
Lancing, Swinburne and Watts visit, 270
Landor, 271, 352
Landslips at Cromer, 270
Lane, John, wishes to compile bibliography of Watts-Dunton’s articles, 6; publication of ‘Coming of Love,’ 396; 440
Lang, Andrew, critical work of, 207; 415
Language, inadequacy of, 323
‘Language of Nature’s Fragrancy,’ 269
Laocoon, 323
‘Last Walk from Boar’s Hill, The,’ 282
Latham, Dr. R. G., acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 58
‘Lavengro,’ 368
‘Lear, King,’ 126, 323, 355
Le Gallienne, R., 1
Leighton, Lord, 172
Leslie, G. D., 301
Leutzner, Dr. Karl, 205
Lever, 367
Lewis, Leopold, 119
Ligier, as Triboulet in ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ 124
Lineham, 95
Litany, 231
‘Literature,’ 132, 244, 245
‘Literature of power,’ 208
‘Liverpool Mercury,’ article on ‘Aylwin,’ 12
Livingstone, J. K. Watts’s friendship with, 52
Llyn Coblynau, 317
London, Watts-Dunton’s life in, 87 et seq.; its low-class women, humourous pictures of, 383
Lorne, Marquis of, 453: see Argyll, Duke of
‘Lothair,’ 353
Louise, Princess (Duchess of Argyll), Rossetti’s alleged rudeness to, 156
‘Love brings Warning of Natura Maligna,’ 414
‘Love for Love,’ 258, 260
‘Love is Enough,’ 177
Love-passion in ‘Aylwin,’ 362
‘Lovers of Gudrun,’ written in twelve hours, 176
‘Loves of the Plants,’ 455
‘Loves of the Triangles,’ 455
Lovell, Sinfi, Nature instinct of, 97; ‘Amazonian Sinfi,’ 107; true representation of gypsy girl, 317; Meredith’s praise of, 363; Groome on, 364; Richard Whiteing on, 364; dominating character of, 363, 365; prototype of, 368–9; beauty of, 391
Low, Sidney, 244
Lowell, James Russell, 222; Watts-Dunton’s critical work, appreciation of, 399; sonnet on the death of, 300; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—meets him at dinner, 295; he attacks England; directs diatribe at Watts; he retorts; a verbal duel, 296; recognition; cites Watts’s first article, 298; his anglophobia turns into anglomania, 299; likes English climate, 300
Lowestoft, 106
Luther, his pigs, 39
‘Lycidas,’ 3, 157
Lyell (geologist), 45; J. K. Watts’s acquaintance with, 50, 52
Lytton, Bulwer, novels of, 349
McCarthy, Justin, ‘Aylwin,’ criticism of, 9; hospitality of, 186
MacColl, Norman, invites Watts-Dunton to write for ‘Athenæum,’ 188; 243, 418
Macready, 136
Macrocosm, microcosm and, 26, 27, 35
‘Madame Bovary,’ 89
Madonna, by Parmigiano, 172
‘Magazine of Art,’ 290
Magpie, hawk and, 109
Maguelonne, Jeanne Samary as, 129
Man, final emancipation of, 47: see also Renascence of Wonder, ‘Aylwinism.’
‘Man and Wife,’ 348
Manchester School, 273
‘Mankind, the Great Man,’ 46
Manns, August, Crystal Palace Concerts conducted by, 89
Manu, 219
‘M.A.P.,’ 278
Mapes, Walter, 388
Marcianus, 104
Marlowe, Christopher, spirit of wonder in poetry of, 16; 329; friend of, 426
Marot, Clement, 229
Marryat, 367
Marshall, John, medical adviser to Rossetti, 152
Marston, Dr. Westland:—symposia at Chalk Farm; famous actors and actresses, 117; table talk about ‘The Bells’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ 119; on staff of ‘Examiner,’ 184; the sub-Swinburnians at the Marston Mornings; the divine Théophile; the Gallic Parnassus, 136
Marston, Philip Bourke, Louise Chandler Moulton’s memoir of, 4, 10, 157; Oliver Madox Brown’s friendship with, 276
Martin, Sir Theodore, 156
Matter, dead, 411, 452; new theory of, 451
Meredith, George, 6; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 283, 284; literary style of, 325, 328; Watts-Dunton’s Sonnet on Coleridge, opinion of, 417; ‘Coming of Love,’ opinion of, 418
‘Meredith, ‘To George, Sonnet, 284
Meredithians, mock, 325
‘Merry Wives of Windsor,’ 293
Methuen, A. M. S., 216
Metrical art, new, 343, 344, 412
Microcosm, of St. Ives, 26–7; 35; characters in the, 50–60
Middleton, Dr. J. H., his friendship with Morris, 172; ‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’ collaboration in, 173
Mill, John Stuart, education of, Watts-Dunton’s early education compared with, 50
Miller, Joaquin, 301
Milton, John, 3; period of wonder in poetry ended with, 25; 157; 293
Minto, Prof., 10; Watts-Dunton’s connection with ‘Examiner’ and, 184–88, 256; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—neighbours in Danes Inn; editing ‘Examiner’; secures Watts; first article appears; Bell Scott’s party; Scott wants to know name of new writer, 184; Watts slates himself, 185; Minto’s Monday evening symposia, 185
Molière, 126, 132
Montaigne—value of leisure—quotation, 68
Morley, John, 27
Morris, Mrs., Rossetti’s picture painted from, 172; reference to, 179, 180
Morris, William, ‘Quarterly Review’ article on, 16; ‘Chambers’s Cyclopædia,’ article on, 173; ‘Odyssey,’ his translation of, 176; Watts-Dunton’s criticism of poems by, 176; intimacy with Watts-Dunton, 170; Watts-Dunton’s monograph on, 170, 173–77; indifference to criticism, 173; anecdotes of, 179–82; generosity of, 179; death of, 178–79; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—Marston mornings at Chalk Farm; ‘nosey Latin,’ 136; Wednesday evenings at Danes Inn; Swinburne, Watts, Marston, Madox Brown and Morris, 170; at Kelmscott, 170; passion for angling, 171; snoring of young owls, 171; causeries at Kelmscott, 173; the only reviews he read, 173; the little carpetless room, 175; writes 750 lines in twelve hours, 176; the crib on his desk, 177; offers to bring out an édition-de-luxe of Watts’s poems; gets subscribers; a magnificent royalty, 179; presentation copies; extravagant generosity; ‘All right, old chap’; ‘Ned Jones and I,’ 180; ‘Algernon pay £10 for a book of mine!’, 181; disgusted with Stead, the music hall singer and dancer; ‘damned tomfoolery,’ 181
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 4, 301
Mounet-Sully, as François I in Le Roi s’Amuse, 125
‘Much Ado about Nothing,’ 260
Murchison, 45, 50, 52
‘Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts,’ 220
Muret, Maurice, 374, 400
Music, Watts-Dunton’s knowledge of, 38, 89
Myers, F. W. H., 291
‘Natura Benigna,’ 97; the keynote of ‘Aylwinism,’ 411
‘Natura Maligna,’ 408; Sir George Birdwood on, 409
Natura Mystica, 73
‘Nature’s Fountain of Youth,’ 268
Nature, ‘Poetic Interpretation of,’ 204; as humourist, 386
Nature-worship, Shintoism, 14, 97; ambition and, 103
‘Nature-worshippers,’ Dictionary for, 68
Neilson, Julia, 117
Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, Watts-Dunton’s criticism of her acting, 117–18
Nelson, 365
‘New Day, The,’ 92, 107, 162–64, 312, 396, 443
New Year, sonnets on morning of, 409
‘News from Nowhere,’ 173
‘Nibelungenlied,’ 176
Nicol, John, 202
Nicoll, Dr. Robertson, 5; collection of Watts-Dunton’s essays suggested by, 6, 22; “Significance of ‘Aylwin,’” essay by, 372; Renascence of Wonder in Religion, articles on, 22, 375, 445
Neilson, Lilian Adelaide, Watts-Dunton’s appreciation of, 117
‘Night and Morning,’ 349
‘Nineteenth Century,’ 290, 291, 442
‘Nin-ki-gal, the Queen of Death,’ 235
Niobe, 323
Niton Bay, 270
‘Noctes Ambrosianæ, Comedy of,’ Watts-Dunton’s review of, 190–201; Lowell’s opinion of same, 298
Norman Cross, vipers of, 104
Norris, H. E., ‘History of St. Ives’ (reference to), 25, 40, 51; River Ouse, praise of, 28, 29, 30
North, Christopher: see Wilson, Professor
‘Northern Farmer,’ 387
Norwich horse fair, 106
‘Notes and Queries,’ 50, 51, 56, 57, 88, 161, 171, 316, 317, 318
‘Notre Dame de Paris,’ 125
Novalis, 247, 455
Novel, importance of, 208; of manners, 308; see Fiction.
Novelists, absurdities of popular, 367
Nutt, Alfred, 6
‘Octopus of the Golden Isles,’ 148
‘Odyssey,’ Morris’s translation of, 176; 208; 341
‘Œdipus Egyptiacus,’ 226
Olympic, Robson at, 57
Omar, Caliph, 69
Omar Khayyàm Club, 81
Omarian Poems, Watts-Dunton’s, 78, 79, 80, 81
‘Omnipotence of Love.’ The, 287
‘Orchard, The,’ Niton Bay, 270
O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, ‘Marston Nights,’ presence at, 136; 161
Ouse, River, poems on, 28, 29, 30; Carlyle’s libel of, 28–9
Owen, Harry, 317
Oxford Union, Rossetti’s lost frescoes at, 162
Pain and Death, 173
Palgrave, F. T., 291
‘Pall Mall Gazette,’ 245
Palmerston, 295
Pamphlet literature, 99
‘Pandora,’ Rossetti’s, 21
‘Pantheism’: Dr. Hunt’s book, 49
Parable poetry, 224
Paradis artificiel, 248, 388
Paragraph-mongers, Rossetti and, 155
Parmigiano, Madonna by, 172
Parsimony, verbal, 418
Partridge, Mrs., 382
Patrick, Dr. David, 5
Penn, William, St. Ives, his death there, 41
‘Perfect Cure,’ The, 181
‘Peter Schlemihl,’ 119
Petit Bot Bay, 31, 268
Phelps, 136
Philistia, romance carried into, 327; 386
Philistinism, actresses and, 132
‘Piccadilly,’ Watts-Dunton writes for, 301, 353
‘Pickwick,’ trial scene in, 387
‘Pines, The,’ residence of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne: Christmas at, 93–4; 262 et seq.; works of art at, 266
Plato, 341
Plot-ridden, ‘Aylwin’ not, 348
Poe, Edgar Allan, on ‘homely’ note in fiction, 325; ‘The Raven,’ originality of, 419
‘Poems by the Way,’ 173, 177
Poetic prose: see Prose
ποιήσις, 341
ποιητής, 340
Poetry, wonder element in, 15, 25; English Romantic School, 17; humour in, question of, 24; parables in, 224; blank verse, 239; popular and artistic, 293; Watts-Dunton’s Essay on, 340, 354, 393; Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Bacon on, 340, 341; difference between prose and, 339; rhetoric and, 340; poetic impulse, 393; sincerity and, conscience in, 394; imagination in, 397; Zoroaster’s definition of, 398; originality in, 419
‘Poets and Poetry of the Century,’ Mackenzie Bell’s study of Watts-Dunton in, 38
Pollock, Walter, contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184
Pope, Alexander, periwig poetry of, 25
‘Poppyland,’ Watts-Dunton visits, 270
Portraiture, ethics of, 141, 143
‘Prayer to the Winds,’ 81
Pre-Raphaelite movement, definition of, 16; poets, 160–61
Priam, 355
Primitive poetry, 15
Prinsep, Val, his vindication of Rossetti, 145
Printers’ ink, taint of, 105
Priory Barn, Robson at 57
Prize-fighters, gypsy, 392
‘Prophetic Pictures at Venice,’ 94
Prose, poetic, 339: difference between poetry and, 339; see also ‘Aylwin,’ Bible Rhythm, Common Prayer, Book of Litany; Manu; Ruskin
Psalms, Watts-Dunton on, 228–41
Publicity, evils of, 262
Purnell, Thomas, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 59
‘Quarterly Review,’ on Renascence of Wonder, 16–17; on friendship between Morris and Watts-Dunton, 173
Queen Katherine, Watts’s sonnet on Ellen Terry as, 122
Quickly, Mrs., 382
Rabelais, 196–200, 387
Racine, 132
Rainbow, The Spirit of the, 101
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 423; on ‘command of the sea,’ 427
Rappel, Le, 123
Reade Charles, 325, 348; hardness of touch, 351
Rehan, Ada, 131
Reid, Sir Wemyss, 185
‘Relapse, The,’ 259
Relative humour: see Humour, absolute and relative
Religion, Renascence of Wonder in, 375; poetic, 455
‘Reminiscence of Open-Air Plays,’ Epilogue, 133
Renascence, decorative, connection with pre-Raphaelite movement, 16
Renascence, Jewish-Arabian, connection with instinct of wonder, 14
Renascence of religion, 22
Renascence of Wonder, exemplified in ‘Aylwin,’ 2; origin of phrase, 11; meaning of phrase, 13, 17, 374; Garnett on, 11, French Revolution, cause of, 13; pre-Raphaelite movement, connection with, 16; Watts-Dunton’s article on, 20, 25; in Philistia, 327, 328; in religion, 22, 375; ‘Coming of Love, The,’ the most powerful expression of, 25; Watts-Dunton’s Treatise on Poetry, 257; ‘Aylwin,’ passages on, 446; foreign critics on, 374; 9, 325
Repartee, comedy of, 259
Representation, imaginative, 398
Rhetoric, Poetry and, 340
Rhona Boswell, see Boswell.
‘Rhona’s Letter,’ 402
Rhyme colour, 412
Rhys, Ernest, ‘Aylwin’ dedicated to, 312; ‘Song of the Wind,’ paraphrase by; 313; 377
Rhythm, 239, 412: see Bible Rhythm
Richardson, 367
Richmond Park, Borrow in, 100
Ripon, Lady, 91
‘Rip Van Winkle,’ 121
‘Rivista d’Italia’: see Galimberti, Madame
‘Robinson Crusoe,’ 307
Robinson, F. W., 12
Robson, actor, J. O. Watts’s admiration for, 57; 127, 129
Rogers, S., 39
‘Roi s’Amuse, Le,’ 123
Romanies, Gorgios and, 389; see Gypsies
Romantic movement, 16–25
‘Romany Rye,’ 367
‘Romeo and Juliet,’ 293
‘Roots of the Mountains,’ 173
‘Rose Mary,’ Watts-Dunton’s advice to Rossetti concerning, 139
Rosicrucian Christmas, 94
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1, 2; Watts-Dunton on, 17, 18, 19, 21; ‘Spirit of Wonder’ expressed by, 18, 19; ‘Pandora,’ 21; Poems of, lack of humour in, 24; ‘Watts’s magnificent Star Sonnet,’ his appreciation of, 29; Omar Khayyàm, translation discovered by, 79; his insomnia; Dr. Hake as his physician; grief for his wife’s death; his melancholia; cock-and-bull stories as to his treatment of his wife; their origin; wild and whirling words; 90–91; stay at Roehampton, 91; Cheyne Walk reunions, 137; Watts-Dunton, affection for, 138–69; Watts-Dunton’s influence on, 139, 140, 149, 150, 154; type of female beauty invented by, 140; dies in Watts-Dunton’s arms, 150; illness of, anecdote concerning, 153; Watts Dunton’s elegy on, 157; Cheyne Walk green dining-room, description, 161; Watts-Dunton’s description of his house, 165–69; his wit and humour, 169; ‘Spirit of the Rainbow,’ illustration to, 276; references to, 9, 10, 27, 35, 262, 263; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—at Marston symposia; the Gallic Parnassians; he advises the bardlings to write in French, 136; interest in work of others; reciting a bardling’s sonnet, 137; wishes Watts to write his life, 140; letter to author about Rossetti, 140; Charles Augustus Howell (De Castro), Rossetti’s opinion of, 142; portrait as D’Arcy in ‘Aylwin’; not idealized; ethics of portraiture of friend; amazing detraction of, 144; too much written about him, 145; relations with his wife; Val Prinsep’s testimony, 145; ‘lovable—most lovable,’ 145; a pious fraud, 153; alleged rudeness to Princess Louise, 155; attitude to a disgraced friend, 210; the dishonest critic; ‘By God, if I met such a man,’ 211; a generous gift, 267; dislike of publicity; abashed by an ‘Athenæum’ paragraph, 263
Rossetti, W. M., 149, 154
Rossetti, Mrs. W. M., 275
Rous, 232
Ruskin, 340
Russell, Lord John, 295
Ryan, W. P., 378
‘Salaman’ and ‘Absal’ of Jámi, 21
Saltabadil, Febvre as, 129
St. Aldegonde, Disraeli’s ‘softness of touch’ in, 351
St. Francis of Assisi, 38
St. Ives, birthplace of Watts-Dunton, 26; old Saxon name for, 35; George Dyer and, 40–41; printing press at, 40; Union Book Club, Watts-Dunton’s speech at, 42; History of, 51; East Anglian sympathies of, 78
St. Peter’s Port, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to, 268
Sainte-Beuve, Watts-Dunton compared to, 2; 399
Saïs, 331
Samary, Jeanne, as Maguelonne, 129
Sampson, Mr., Romany scholar, 367
Sancho Panza, 382
Sandys, Frederick, 267
Sark, Swinburne and Watts-Dunton’s visit to, 269
‘Saturday Review,’ 34, 245, 257, 382
Savile Club, 202
Schiller, 221
‘Scholar Gypsy, The,’ 108
Schopenhauer, 247
Science, man’s good genius, 47–9
Science, Watts-Dunton’s speech on, 42–9
Scott, Sir Walter, his humour, 195; tribute to, 220, 221, 307; 346; ‘softness of touch’ in portraiture, 350; 367
Scott, William Bell, anecdote of, 184
‘Scullion, Sterne’s fat, foolish,’ 249
‘Semaine Littéraire, La,’ 347, 374, 380
Sex, witchery of, 391
‘Shadow on the Window Blind,’ 164: first printed in Mackenzie Bell’s Study of Watts-Dunton in ‘Poets and Poetry of the Century,’ q.v.
Shakespeare, spirit of wonder in, 16; 126; 186; 293; richness in style, 328; 355; 382; 394
‘Shales mare,’ 106
Shandys, the two, 350
Sharp, William, 29; scenery and atmosphere of ‘Aylwin,’ 72, 75; 276, 284; influence of Watts-Dunton on Rossetti, 399
Shaw, Byam, ‘Brynhild on Sigurd’s Funeral Pyre,’ illustration of, 366
Shaw, Dr. Norton, intimacy with J. K. Watts, 52
Shelley, 157; 293; ‘Epipsychidion,’ 419
Shintoism, 14
Shirley: see Skelton, Sir John
Shirley Essays, 202
‘Shirley,’ Watts-Dunton’s criticism of, 365
Shorter, Clement, his connection with Slepe Hall, 35
Sibilant, in poetry, 286–88
Siddons, Mrs., 131
Sidestrand, visit of Swinburne and Watts-Dunton to, 269
Sidney, Sir Philip, 365
‘Sigurd,’ 173, 176; 366
‘Silas Marner,’ public-house scene in, 387
Sinfi Lovell, see Lovell
Skeleton, the Golden, 422 et seq.
Skelton, Sir John, his ‘Comedy of the Noctes Ambrosianæ,’ Watts-Dunton’s review of, 190–201; Rossetti ‘Reminiscences,’ 202; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 202
Sleaford, Lord, 353
Slepe Hall, Clement Shorter’s connection with, 35; story told in connection with, 36
Sly, Christopher, 388
Smalley, G. W., his article on Whistler, 302
Smart set, 353
‘Smart slating,’ Watts-Dunton on, 207
Smetham, James: see Wilderspin
Smith, Alexander, 44; Herbert Spencer and, 213
Smith, Gypsy, 351
Smith, Sydney, 43, 196
Smollett, 304, 367
Snowdon, 315
Socrates, 45
‘Softness of touch’ in fiction, 350
Sonnet, The, Essay on, reference to, 205
Sophocles, 323, 394
Sothern, 118
Spencer, Herbert, Alexander Smith and, ‘Athenæum’ anecdote, 212–14
Spenser, Edmund, Spirit of Wonder in poetry of, 16
Spirit of Place, 26
‘Spirit of the Sunrise,’ 450
Sport, 65–67; definition of, 68
Sports, field, 65
Squeezing of books, 191
Staël, Madame de, her struggle against tradition of 18th century, 18
Stanley, Fenella, 362, 363
Stead, William Morris and, 181
Stedman, Clarence, his remarks on ‘The Coming of Love,’ 4, 10, 301
Sterne, his humour, 246–55; his indecencies, 253; his ‘softness of touch,’ 350; 367, 387
Sternhold, 229
Stevenson, R. L., 10; Watts-Dunton’s criticism of ‘Kidnapped’ and ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ 215–21; letter from, 216
Stillman, Mrs., Rossetti’s picture painted from, 172
Stone, E. D., “Christmas at the ‘Mermaid,’” Latin translation by, 147
‘Stories after Nature,’ Wells’s, 53–55
Stourbridge Fair, 65
Strand, the symposium in the, 185
Stratford-on-Avon, Watts-Dunton’s poems on, 31, 32; see also “Christmas at the ‘Mermaid,’” 423
Stress in poetry, 344
Strong, Prof. A. S., references to, 1, 5, 132; article on ‘The Coming of Love,’ 444; 445
Style, le, c’est la race, 233
Style, the Great, 234
Sufism, 449; in ‘Aylwin,’ 454
‘Suicide Club, The,’ 220
Sully, Professor, contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184
Sunrise, Poet of the, 398
Sunsets, in the Fens, 62
Surtees, 367
Swallow Falls, 315
Swift, his humour the opposite of Sterne’s, 250
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, acquaintance with J. O. Watts, 58; intercourse and friendship with Watts-Dunton, 89, 268–74; ‘Jubilee Greeting’ dedicated to, 273; partly identified with Percy Aylwin, see description of his swimming, 268; 279–84; at Théâtre Française, 124; dedications to Watts-Dunton, 271, 272; offensive newspaper caricatures of, 263; championship of Meredith, 284; on ‘Tom Jones,’ ‘Waverley,’ ‘Aylwin,’ 346; on ‘Aylwin,’ 363; references to, 1, 12, 27, 117, 123, 139, 147, 157, 170, 180, 181, 184, 328, 413; Anecdotes of:—chambers in Great James St., 89; never a playgoer, 117; life at ‘The Pines,’ 262 et seq.; the great Swinburne myth, 263; the American lady journalist, 264; an imaginary interview, 265; an unlovely bard; painfully ‘afflated’; method of composition; ‘stamping with both feet,’ 265; friendship with Watts began in 1872, 268; inseparable since; housemates at ‘The Pines’; visit to Channel Islands; swimming in Petit Bot Bay, 268; Sark; ‘Orion’ Horne’s bravado challenge, 269; visits Paris for Jubilee of ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ 269; swimming at Sidestrand; meets Grant Allen, 269; visits Eastbourne, Lancing, Isle of Wight, Cromer, 270; visits to Jowett; Jowett’s admiration of Watts, 279; Balliol dinner parties, 280; at the Bodleian, 282; great novels which are popular, 273
Swinburne, Miss, 299
Symons, Arthur, ‘Coming of Love,’ article on, 257
Table-Talk, Watts-Dunton’s, Rossetti on, 183
Tabley, Lord de, 277
Taine, 232
‘Tale of Beowulf,’ 173
Taliesin, ‘Song of the Wind,’ 313
Talk on Waterloo Bridge,’ ‘A, 116
Tarno Rye, 351, 391
Tate and Brady, 232
Telepathy, dogs and, 82–6
Temple, Lord and Lady Mount, 270
Tenderness, in English hero, 365
‘Tennyson, Alfred, Birthday Address,’ 32
‘Tennyson, Alfred,’ sonnet to, 286
Tennyson, Lord, 4, 32, 144; dishonest criticism, opinion of, 211; Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 285; Watts-Dunton’s criticism of and essays on, 289, 290; ‘Memoir,’ Watts-Dunton’s contribution, 291; anecdotes concerning, 287–89; ‘The Princess,’ defects of, 290; portraits of, Watts-Dunton’s articles on, 290; ‘Maud,’ compared with Rhona Boswell, 413; Watts-Dunton and:—sympathy between him and, 285; sonnet on birthday, 286; meeting at garden party; open invitation to Aldworth and Farringford; his ear not defective, 286; sensibility to delicate metrical nuances, 287; challenges a sibilant in a sonnet, 287; ‘scent’ better than ‘scents,’ 287; his morbid modesty, 288; a poet is not born to the purple, 288; reading ‘Becket’ in summer-house; desired free criticism, 288; alleged rudeness to women, 289; detraction of, 289; could not invent a story, 289; the nucleus of ‘Maud,’ 289
Terry, Ellen, Watts-Dunton’s friendship with, 117, 121; sonnet on, 122
Thackeray, 295, 305, 325, 328; ‘softness of touch,’ 350–53
Théâtre Française, Swinburne and Watts at, 123–29
Thicket, The, St. Ives, 30, 32
Thoreau, teaching of, 69; love of wind, 371; 442
Thuthe, the, Kisāgotámī and, 455–6
‘Thyrsis,’ 157
Tieck, 19
‘Times,’ 89, 245, 301, 370
‘Toast to Omar Khayyám,’ 79
Tooke, Horne, 39
‘T. P.’s Weekly,’ 89
‘Torquemada,’ motif of, 125
Tourneur, Cyril, ‘spirit of wonder’ in, 16
Traill, H. D., his criticism, 207; Watts-Dunton’s meeting with, 243; review of his ‘Sterne,’ 246–55; his letter to MacColl, 243; meets him at dinner, 243; picturesque appearance; boyish lisp; calls at ‘The Pines’; interesting figures at his gatherings; ‘a man of genius’; asks Watts to write for ‘Literature’; his geniality as an editor, 244; why ‘Literature’ failed, 245
‘Travailleurs de la Mer, Les,’ 370
‘Treasure Island,’ 220
Triboulet, Got as, 124–29
‘Tribute, The,’ 289
‘Tristram of Lyonesse,’ dedicated to Watts-Dunton, 272
Troubadours and Trouvères, The, 204
Trus’hul, the Romany Cross, 101
Turner, 299
Twentieth Century, Cosmogony of, 373
Ukko, the Sky God, 73
‘Under the Greenwood Tree,’ rustic humour of, 186
‘Ups and Downs of an Old Nunnery,’ 53
Vacquerie, Auguste, ‘Le Roi s’Amuse’ produced by, 123
Vanbrugh, Irene, 131
Vanbrugh, Watts-Dunton’s article on, 258
Vance, the Great, 182
Vaughan, his ‘Hours with the Mystics,’ 58
‘Veiled Queen, The,’ 57, 229, 374, 375
Vernunft of Man, the Bible and the, 230
Verse, English, accent in, 344
Vezin, Hermann, 118; Mrs., 131
Victoria, Queen, Watts-Dunton’s tribute to, 274
Villain in Hugo’s novels, 125; ‘Aylwin,’ a novel without a, 349
Villon, 388
Virgil, wonder in, 15; 208
Vision, absolute and relative, 354; in ‘Aylwin,’ 357 et seq.
‘Vita Nuova,’ 412
‘Volsunga Saga,’ 176
Voltaire, 259
Wagner, 89, 412
Wahrheit and Dichtung, in ‘Aylwin,’ 50
Wales, Watts-Dunton’s sympathy with, 312; popularity of ‘Aylwin’ in, 314; descriptions of, 315, 317, 318; Welsh accent, 319–20
Wales, Prince of, anecdote of, 67
Warburton, 69
‘Wassail Chorus,’ 438
Waterloo Bridge, Borrow on, 115
‘Water of the Wondrous Isles,’ 181
Watson, William, Grant Allen on, 207
Watts, A. E., Watts-Dunton’s brother, articled as solicitor, 72; Cyril Aylwin, identification with, 87; his humour, 88; death, 89
Watts, G. F., Rossetti’s portrait by, 161
Watts, James Orlando, Watts-Dunton’s uncle, identity of character with Philip Aylwin, 51, 56–60
Watts, J. K., Watts-Dunton’s father, account of, 50, 53; scientific celebrities, intimacy with, 50–53; scientific reputation of, 52
Watts, William K., description of, 160
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, memoirs of, 4; monograph on, reply to author’s suggestion to write, 6, 7; plan of same, 9; description of, 278–9; Boyhood:—birthplace, 26; Cromwell’s elder wine, 37; Cambridge school-days, 37, 66; St. Ives Union Book Club, speech delivered at, 15, 42–49; family of Dunton, 53; father and son—the double brain, 53–5; as child critic, 55; interest in sport and athletics, 65; Deerfoot and the Prince of Wales, 67; period of Nature study, 67; articled to solicitor, 72; Life in London:—solicitor’s practice, 88; life at Sydenham, 89; London Society, 89, 353; interest in slum-life, 92; connection with theatrical world, 117–35; Characteristics:—Love of animals, 38, 39, 82–85; interest in poor, 92–4; conversational powers, 183; genius for friendship, 443; indifference to fame, 3, 183, 204; habit of early rising, 279; influence, 1, 2, 22, 452; dual personality, 322, 356; music, love of, 38, 89; natural science, proficiency in, 38; optimism, 9, 457; identification with Henry Aylwin, 356; Romany blood in, 361; Writings:—‘Academy,’ invitation to write for, 187; ‘Athenæum,’ invitation to write for, 188, 202; contributions to, 1, 55, 170, 173, 189–201, 204; his treatise on Sonnet—Dr. Karl Leutzner on, 205; critical principles, 205; ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’ articles, 1, 2, 4, 6, 205, 256, 257–8; difference between prose and poetry, 339; 340, 393; poetic style, 323; ‘Examiner’ articles, 184; see also Minto; Critical Work:—Swinburne’s opinion of, 1; character of, 8, 205–208; critical and creative work, relation between, 203; critical and imaginative work interwoven, 370; School of Criticism founded, 4; Essays on Tennyson, 290; Lowell on, 399; Dramatic Criticism:—119, 120, 121, 123–30; Poetry:—2, 4, 15, 393–441; Rossetti on, 399; Prose Writings:—character of, 2, 321–25, 327–92, 350, 453; richness of style, 329, 330, 331, 333, 336; unity of his writings, 445; American friends of, 295–311; Gypsies, description of first meeting with, 61; Friends, Reminiscences of:—Appleton, Prof: at Bell Scott’s and Rossetti’s; Hegel on the brain; asks Watts to write for ‘Academy,’ 187; wants him to pith the German transcendentalists in two columns, 188; in a rage; Watts explains why he has gone into enemy’s camp, 201; a Philistine, 202; Black, William: resemblance to Watts, 185; meeting at Justin McCarthy’s, 186; Watts mistaken for Black, 186; Borrow, George: his first meeting with, 95; his shyness, 99; Watts attacks it; tries Bamfylde Moore Carew; then tries beer, the British bruiser, philology, Ambrose Gwinett, etc., 100; a stroll in Richmond Park; visit to ‘Bald-faced Stag’; Jerry Abershaw’s sword; his gigantic green umbrella, 101–102; tries Whittlesea Mere; Borrow’s surprise; vipers of Norman Cross; Romanies and vipers, 104; disclaims taint of printers’ ink; ‘Who are you?’ 105; an East Midlander; the Shales Mare, 106; Cromer sea best for swimming; rainbow reflected in Ouse and Norfolk sand, 106; goes to a gypsy camp; talks about Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar-Gypsy,’ 108; resolves to try it on gypsy woman; watches hawk and magpie, 109; meets Perpinia Boswell; ‘the popalated gypsy of Codling Gap,’ 110; Rhona Boswell, girl of the dragon flies; the sick chavo; forbids Pep to smoke, 112; description of Rhona, 113; the Devil’s Needles; reads Glanville’s story; Rhona bored by Arnold, 114; hatred of tobacco, 115; last sight of Borrow on Waterloo Bridge, 115; sonnet on, 116; Brown, Madox: 10, 12, 35, 136, 170; anecdote about portrait of, 274; Brown, Oliver Madox: his novel, 274–6; Browning: Watts chaffs him in ‘Athenæum’; chided by Swinburne, 222; 223–27; sees him at Royal Academy private view; Lowell advises him to slip away; bets he will be more cordial than ever; Lowell astonished at his magnanimity, 222–23; the review in question, ‘Ferishtah’s Fancies,’ 223–26; Groome, Frank: a luncheon at ‘The Pines,’ 79; ‘Old Fitz’; patted on the head by, 79; see also 50, 68, 72, 285, 351, 364, 367, 372, 420; Hake, Gordon: Introduces Borrow, 95; see ‘New Day’; physician to Rossetti and to Lady Ripon, 90–91; Harte, Bret: Watts’s estimate of, 302–11; histrionic gifts, 302; meeting with; drive round London music halls, 303; ‘Holborn,’ ‘Oxford’; Evans’s supper-rooms; Paddy Green; meets him again at breakfast; a fine actor lost, 303; Lowell, James Russell: meets him at dinner, 295; he attacks England; directs diatribe at Watts; he retorts; a verbal duel, 296; recognition; cites Watts’s first article, 298; his anglophobia turns into anglomania, 299; likes English climate, 300; Marston, Westland: symposia at Chalk Farm; famous actors and actresses, 117; table talk about ‘The Bells’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ 119; on staff of ‘Examiner,’ 184; the sub-Swinburnians at the Marston mornings; the divine Théophile; the Gallic Parnassus, 136; Meredith, George: 6, 283, 284, 325, 328, 417, 418; Minto, Prof.: neighbours in Danes Inn; editing ‘Examiner’; secures Watts; first article appears; Bell Scott’s party; Scott wants to know name of new writer, 184; Watts slates himself, 185; Minto’s Monday evening symposia, 185; Morris, William: Marston mornings at Chalk Farm; ‘nosey Latin,’ 136; Wednesday evenings at Danes Inn; Swinburne, Watts, Marston, Madox Brown and Morris, 170; at Kelmscott, 170; passion for angling, 171; snoring of young owls, 171; causeries at Kelmscott, 173; the only reviews he read, 173; the little carpetless room, 175; writes 750 lines in twelve hours, 176; the crib on his desk, 177; offers to bring out an édition-de-luxe of Watts’s poems; gets subscribers; a magnificent royalty, 179; presentation copies; extravagant generosity; ‘All right, old chap’; ‘Ned Jones and I,’ 180; ‘Algernon pay £10 for a book of mine!’ 181; disgusted with Stead, the music-hall singer and dancer; ‘damned tomfoolery,’ 181; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: at Marston symposia; the Gallic Parnassians; he advises the bardlings to write in French, 136; interest in work of others; reciting a bardling’s sonnet, 137; wishes Watts to write his life, 140; Swinburne on Watts’s influence over, 139; letter to author about Rossetti, 140; Charles Augustus Howell (De Castro), Rossetti’s opinion of, 142; portrait as D’Arcy in ‘Aylwin’; not idealized; ethics of portraiture of friend; amazing detraction of, 144; too much written about him, 145; relations with his wife; Val Prinsep’s testimony, 145; ‘lovable, most lovable,’ 145; dies in Watts’s arms, 150; a pious fraud, 153; alleged rudeness to Princess Louise, 155; described in ‘Aylwin,’ 165–9; his wit and humour, 169; attitude to a disgraced friend, 210; the dishonest critic; ‘By God, if I met such a man,’ 211; a generous gift, 267; dislike of publicity; abashed by an ‘Athenæum’ paragraph, 263; Swinburne, Algernon Charles: James Orlando Watts and, 58; chambers in Great James Street, 89; life at ‘The Pines,’ 262 et seq.; offensive newspaper caricature of, 263; the great Swinburne myth, 263; the American lady journalist, 264; an imaginary interview, 265; an unlovely bard; painfully ‘afflated’; method of composition; ‘stamping with both feet,’ 265; friendship with Watts began in 1872, 268; inseparable since; housemates at ‘The Pines’; visit to Channel Islands; swimming in Petit Bot Bay, 268; Sark; ‘Orion’ Horne’s bravado challenge, 269; visits Paris for Jubilee of ‘Le Roi s’Amuse,’ 269; swimming at Sidestrand; meets Grant Allen, 269; visits Eastbourne, Lancing, Isle of Wight, Cromer, 270; sonnet to Watts, 271; dedicates ‘Tristram of Lyonesse’ to Watts, 272; also Collected Edition of Poems, 272; visits to Jowett; Jowett’s admiration of Watts, 279; Balliol dinner parties, 280; at the Bodleian, 282; great novels which are popular, 273; champions Meredith, 284; Tennyson, Alfred: friendship with, 285; sympathy between him and, 285; sonnet on birthday, 286; meeting at garden party; open invitation to Aldworth and Farringford; his ear not defective, 286; sensibility to delicate metrical nuances, 287; challenges a sibilant in a sonnet, 287; ‘scent’ better than ‘scents,’ 287; his morbid modesty, 288; a poet is not born to the purple, 288; reading ‘Becket’ in summer-house; desired free criticism, 288; alleged rudeness to women, 289; detraction of, 289; could not invent a story, 289; the nucleus of ‘Maud,’ 289; his articles on portraits of, 290; Traill, H. D.: reviews his ‘Sterne’; his letter to MacColl, 243; meets him at dinner, 243; picturesque appearance; boyish lisp; calls at ‘The Pines’; interesting figures at his gatherings; ‘a man of genius’; asks Watts to write for ‘Literature’; his geniality as an editor, 244; why ‘Literature’ failed, 245; Whistler, J. McNeill: Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of, 88; anecdotes of De Castro, 142; neighbour of Rossetti, 156; close friendship with Watts, 301; hostility to Royal Academy, 301–2; his first lithographs, 301–2; engaged with Watts on ‘Piccadilly,’ 301, 353; ‘To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,’ 353
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, Swinburne’s sonnets to, 271, 272
‘Waverley,’ Swinburne on; its new dramatic method; cause of its success; imitated by Dumas, 346
Way, T., Whistler’s first lithographs, 301, 302
Webster, ‘Spirit of Wonder’ in, 16
‘Well at the World’s End,’ 173
Wells, Charles, 53–55
‘Westminster Abbey, In’ (Burial of Tennyson), 291
‘W. H. Mr.,’ 424–26
‘What the Silent Voices said,’ 291
Whewell, intimacy with J. K. Watts, 52
Whistler, J. McNeill:—Cyril Aylwin not a portrait of, 88; anecdotes of De Castro, 142; neighbour of Rossetti, 156; close friendship with Watts, 301; his first lithographs, 301–2; hostility to Royal Academy, 301–2; engaged with Watts on ‘Piccadilly,’ 301, 353; ‘To Theodore Watts, the Worldling,’ 353
White, Gilbert, 50
Whiteing, Richard, 364
‘White Ship, The,’ 153, 154
Whittlesea Mere, 104
Whyte-Melville, 352, 367
Wilderspin, 331: see Smetham, James
Wilkie, his realism, humour of, 387
Williams,’ Scholar,’ contributor to ‘Examiner,’ 184
Williams, Smith, 275
‘William Wilson,’ 219
Willis, Parker, 264
Wilson, Professor, Watts-Dunton’s essay on his ‘Noctes Ambrosianæ,’ 190–201
Wimbledon Common, Borrow and, 101; Watts-Dunton and, 279
Wind, love of the, Thoreau’s, 370, 371
Women, as actresses, 131; heroic type of, 365
Wonder: see Renascence of Wonder; old and new, 15; Bible as great book of, 228; place in race development, 14
‘Wood-Haunter’s Dream, The,’ 276
Wordsworth, William, definition of language, 39; his ideal John Bull, 224
Word-twisting, 325, 327
Work, heresy of, 68
‘World,’ The, Rossetti’s letter to, 155
‘World’s Classics,’ edition of ‘Aylwin’ in, 374
‘Wuthering Heights,’ 342, 345
Wynne, Winifred, character of, 314, 315, 363; love of the wind, 371
Yarmouth, 106
Yorickism, 250
Zoroaster, heresy of work, 68; definition of poetry, 398
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