y's writings
seemed to shut him off from the outside world
II Merits and defects of his style. Not a plastic 40
style, but in the delineation of certain moods
supremely excellent
Compare De Quincey and Oscar Wilde
_Our Ladies of Sorrow_ and _De Profundis_
III The intellectual grip behind the shifting 45
phantasies
De Quincey as critic and historian
IV The humour of De Quincey--not very genuine page 48
Witty rather than humorous
Humour not characteristic of the Vagabond
V De Quincey--Mystic and Logician 52
The fascination of his personality
III
GEORGE BORROW
I Dreamers in Literature 57
Romantic autobiography and _Lavengro_
Borrow on the subject of autobiography
The Celt and the Saxon in Borrow
His egotism
Little objective feeling in his friendships
A self-absorbed and self-contained nature
The Isopel Berners episode discussed
The coldness of Borrow
II His faculty for seizing on the picturesque and 66
picaresque elements in the world about him
Illustrations from _The Bible in Spain_
Illustrations from _Lavengro_
III Borrow and the Gypsies 75
Mr. Watts-Dunton's tribute to Borrow
Petulengro
Borrow's faculty for characterization
"How to manage a horse on a journey"
IV Borrow and Thomas Hardy compared 82
Both drawn to characters not "screened by
convention"
Differences in method of presentment
Borrow's greater affinity with Charles Reade
His distinctive originality
The spacious freshness of his writings
In his company always "a wind on the heath"
IV
HENRY D. THOREAU
I Thoreau and his critics 89
The Saxon attitude towards him
The Walden episode
Too much has been made of it
He went to Walden not to escape ordinary life, but
to fit himself for ordinary life
II His ind