CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| A Return to the Nest | [1] |
| “And now, O Lord ...” | [7] |
| The Death of the Sheep | [12] |
| The Solitary Reaper | [16] |
| Interiors | [19] |
| The Plight of Their Graces | [25] |
| The Village | [30] |
| The Curtains | [39] |
| Happiness in the Village | [43] |
| Otherwhereness | [48] |
| The Journey to Cockaigne | [54] |
| Suicide of the Novel | [59] |
| Immortal Works | [65] |
| Ballad-Origins | [69] |
| Real and Temporal Creation | [77] |
| Peasant Poets | [82] |
| Doggerel or Not | [88] |
| The Iberian’s House | [93] |
| Scandinavian England | [99] |
| Our Blood and State in 1660 | [103] |
| “Merrie” England | [109] |
| Endings—I | [115] |
| “ II | [124] |
| Beaumarchais | [132] |
| The Cardinal de Retz | [148] |
| “L’Abbesse Universelle”: Madame de Maintenon | [166] |
| Pierre de L’Estoile | [172] |
| La Bruyère | [191] |
| Couleur de Rose | [211] |
| Art and Heart | [217] |
| A Novel and a Classic | [223] |
| The Other Dorothy | [229] |
| Realism with a Difference | [247] |
| Mr. Pepys His Apple-cart | [253] |
| One of Lamb’s Creditors | [269] |
| Crocus and Primrose | [278] |
| Daffodils | [285] |
| Windflowers | [291] |
| Tulips | [297] |
| Summer | [304] |
| The Lingering of the Light | [310] |