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AnecdotalWisdom: Poet and critic Theodore Watts added the name Dunton, his mother’s surname, to his own in 1896. Painter James Whistler, the deadly foe of all social pretension, signalised the event with a three-word note to his erstwhile friend: “Theodore, Watts Dunton?”
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12, 1832), author of "The Renascence of Wonder" (1903) et al.
DurhamWASP: Henry Treffry Dunn [1838-1899]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti reading proofs of Sonnets and Ballads to Theodore Watts-Dunton in the drawing room at 16 Cheyne Walk, London [1882]
TomD3SG: Happy that this book that just arrived! I'm looking forward to learning more about Theodore Watts-Dunton!!
TomD3SG: This is Henry Treffry Dunn's c.1898 painting for the The Theodore Watts-Dunton Cabinet: Hamlet and Ophelia! I have been reading about him over the past few days and not only was he an amazing artist in his own right,but also make copies for Rossetti in his role as assistant!
AndKnuckles_bot: Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic & Knuckles
iunfollowanyway: physical collapses that necessitated removal to his parents’ home while he recovered. In 1879, Swinburne’s friend and literary agent, Theodore Watts-Dunton, intervened during a time when Swinburne was dangerously ill. Watts-Dunton isolated Swinburne at a suburban home in Putney
AnecdotalWisdom: Poet and critic Theodore Watts added the name Dunton, his mother’s surname, to his own in 1896. Painter James Whistler, the deadly foe of all social pretension, signalised the event with a three-word note to his erstwhile friend: “Theodore, Watts Dunton?”
AnecdotalWisdom: Poet and critic Theodore Watts added the name Dunton, his mother’s surname, to his own in 1896. Painter James Whistler, the deadly foe of all social pretension, signalised the event with a three-word note to his erstwhile friend: “Theodore, Watts Dunton?”
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12, 1832), author of "The Renascence of Wonder" (1903) et al.
VolcanoUnder: “They were mostly mine because Jacques has a weak stomach and is usually sick after three drinks and after four he would start to play the Good Samaritan, and after five Theodore Watts Dunton too . . . So that I appreciated, so to speak, a change of technique.
VolcanoUnder: But,” just for one moment the Consul seemed to have difficulty placing one foot before another, “to be more concrete, actually he did have a better reason for staying than to play Theodore Watts Dunton. To my Swinburne.”
Page_Upon_Page: Flint and feather; the complete poems. With introd. by Theodore Watts-Dunton, and a biographical sketch of the author. Illustrated by J.R. Seavey (Published: 1921)
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MoviesSilently: "Since You Said You Don't Like John Wayne, I Am Going to Name Every Film He Acted in One at a Time and Expect a Detailed Explanation of Why You Dislike Each One" by Theodore Watts-Dunton after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
plastic_bio: A sonnet is a wave of melodyFrom heaving waters of the impassion'd soul.
- Theodore Watts-Dunton
TheCarnacki: I read the (lengthy) introduction to George Borrow's Wild Wales (1862, this edition 1906), by Theodore Watts-Dunton.
I was struck by these passages on the Spirit of Antiquity, redolent of Machen's work.
Looking forward to reading this one, although it is quite long.
SandwellMuseums: Today's St George and the Dragon is owned by the fabulous Wightwick Manor near Wolverhampton. The painting dates from 1896/8 and is in the style of the pre-Raphaelites by Henry Treffryn Dunn. Find out more on the art UK website at
flusteredduck: Natura Maligna by Theodore Watts-Dunton (Walter Theodore Watts)
Pub_Hist: Henry Treffry Dunn
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Theodore Watts-Dunton in the Sitting Room of Tudor House
met_photos: From the Tapestry Room by Theodore Watts-Dunton
profdanhicks: Much has been said about those who opposed the memorialisation of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford at the time.
But it's also important to recall what those involved in that memorialisation thought—e.g. in the opening lines of Theodore Watts-Dunton's "The Rhodes Memorial At Oxford" (1907)
AndKnuckles_bot: Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic & Knuckles
WhistPlayers: “Swinburne always walks in the morning, writes in the afternoon and reads in the evening”, escriu el seu amic Theodore Watts-Dunton. Aquest seria el meu programa ideal per a l’any vinent, només que canviant l’ordre.
met_photos: In the Attics by Theodore Watts-Dunton
shelleyscholar: Another Shelley Society Publication. This presentation copy is my favourite in the collection: a copy of Epipsychidion from Algernon Charles Swinburne to Walter Theodore Watts, aka Theodore Watt-Dunton.
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12, 1832), author of "The Renascence of Wonder" (1903) et al.
met_photos: In the Attics by Theodore Watts-Dunton
hannedarboven: Perhaps it was for this reason that Dunwich became a place of pilgrimage for melancholy poets in the Victorian age. Algernon Charles Swinburne, for instance, went there on several occasions in the 1870s with his companion Theodore Watts-Dunton,
DunwichHeathNT: Happy
met_photos: In the Attics by Theodore Watts-Dunton
met_photos: From the Tapestry Room by Theodore Watts-Dunton
met_photos: Passage to Panelled Room by Theodore Watts-Dunton
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12, 1832), author of "The Renascence of Wonder" (1903) et al.
DissertatorAnon: 4 of 5 stars to Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
DickensFellowHQ: The monument to Douglas and Blanchard Jerrold at West Norwood cemetery - behind the one to Theodore Watts-Dunton -...
xufospace: met-photos: From the Tapestry Room by Theodore Watts-Dunton,...
lemon_lawyers: John Keats. The Poetical Works. Theodore Watts-Dunton's annotated copy
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English writer/poet Theodore Watts-Dunton (October 12, 1832), author of "The Renascence of Wonder" (1903) et al.
inmodelpino: The Theodore Watts-Dunton Folding Press Bed: Janey Morris
Arte_en_Fotos: An artistic interior D . Rossetti reading to Theodore Watts Dunton in the drawing room at No 16 Cheyne Walk1882
MarieZurie: Beautiful. Poem: The Sonnet's Voice by Theodore Watts-Dunton
NewBooksNB: 1898 Theodore Watts-Dunton The Coming Of Love And other Poems Selbourne
NewBooksNB: 1898 Theodore Watts-Dunton The Coming Of Love And other Poems Selbourne
