Identifier: lifelettersofthe02hake (find matches)
Title: The life and letters of Theodore Watts-Dunton
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Hake, Thomas, d. 1917 Compton-Rickett, Arthur, 1869-1937 Watts-Dunton, Clara Jane Reich
Subjects: Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914
Publisher: London : T. C. & E. C. Jack, limited New York, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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r I will not con-ceal from you that she has not a tooth in her head, nora hair (to speak of) upon it. Her age (I am told) isexactly four months ; she is daughter to the familywasherwoman, and empress of the heart of Yours ever affectionately, A. C. Swinburne. ** Bertie, the son of Mrs. Charles Mason, was alittle child when Swinburne went to live on PutneyHill. It was about this boy that the poet wrote hischild verses. Concerning Bertie, Mrs. Lynn Lyntononce remarked to Watts-Dunton, having heard of Swin-burnes devotion to his little nephew at The Pines,that a man who really loves a child knows a greathappiness; and she added, Loving all children ispleasant, but loving one specially, and doing what wecan to mould the character and enrich the intellect, isthe greatest joy of middle life. All epochs have theirnatural instincts, their natural joys ; and this belongsto us when the passionate personality of our fervid youthhas passed. XXII.THE MIDSUMMER HOLIDAY. Swinburnes Room at The Pines
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XXII. The Midsummer Holiday. IV/TEANTIME Swinburne had joined Watts-Duntonas house-mate at The Pines. His new Ufe onPutney Hill began, as we have stated, in the autumnof 1879. After the death of Rossetti in the spring of 1882,the intimacy between the two poets at The Pinesbecame much closer. There was less intellectualaffinity, less artistic affinity also, between Watts-Dunton and Swinburne than had existed between theauthor of Aylwin and the author of Sister Helen. Butthe attractive simplicity of Swinburne the man, and itmay be added his essential lovableness, enlisted verywarmly Watts-Duntons sympathies, whilst on Swin-burnes side the charm and tenderness of Watts-Duntoninspired an even warmer personal affection. However,widely as Watts-Dunton differed from Swinburne incertain artistic tendencies, they had one potent inclina-tion in common—a passion for the sea. In a passagefrom his Preface to Coleridges Lyrical Poems, speakingof the Ancient Mariner, Swinburne expressed regret tha

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