SYNOPSIS
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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
A Story With Two Heroines 363
CHAPTER XXIII
The Renascence of Wonder in Religion 372
CHAPTER XXIV
The Renascence of Wonder in Humour 382
CHAPTER XXV
Gorgios and Romanies 389
CHAPTER XXVI
‘The Coming of Love’ 393
CHAPTER XXVIII
“Christmas at the ‘Mermaid’” 422
CHAPTER XXVIII
Conclusion 442