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’