Watts-Dunton
Americannoun
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Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The cradle of our lives," says Mr. Watts-Dunton, "draws us to itself wherever we go."
From The Allied Countries and the Jews by Hyman Gerson Enelow
And the modern critics who praise him are not open-air men, but bookish, library men, whose names do not suggest the robustly adventurous, Lionel Johnson, Mr. Watts-Dunton, Mr. Birrell, Mr. Seccombe.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
Watts-Dunton has a true conception of poetry when he calls it the product of inspiration or concrete and artistic expression of the human mind in emotional language.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
To show that Borrow took an interest in children, Mr. Watts-Dunton quotes a story about Borrow and the gipsy child which “Borrow was fond of telling in support of his anti-tobacco bias.”
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
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