Chapter 14

‘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,345et seq.; epic and dramatic methods in,346; ‘softness of touch’ in,349et 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; superiorityof 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


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