Contents

ChapterPage
I.The Child[1]
II.The Boy[15]
III.Manchester and Medicine[35]
IV.London Streets[61]
V.The Discovery[85]
VI.Literary Beginnings[111]
VII."Poems"[135]
VIII.Of Words; of Origins; of Metre[152]
IX.At Monastery Gates[180]
X.Mysticism and Imagination[198]
XI.Patmore's Death, and "New Poems"[233]
XII.Friends and Opinions[245]
XIII.The Londoner[272]
XIV.Communion and Excommunion[291]
XV.Characteristics[308]
XVI.The Closing Years[316]
XVII.Last Things[339]
Index[353]