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catch. A type of
round; but the term is now often used in a less general sense which confines its application to such rounds as, in the singing, afford a laugh by the way the words are heard, as for instance in the one
Ah, how Sophia, which in the singing suggests ‘Our house afire’, the later line ‘Go fetch the Indian's borrowed plume’ similarly suggesting ‘Go fetch the engines!’. Restoration specimens are more amusing and much more indecent. A Catch Club (Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club) was founded in London in 1761 and still exists.
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Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin (1898) and the reduplications of Romanticism.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT This essay examines Theodore Watts-Dunton's fascinating, best-selling, but now neglected...modern readers of Victorian literature, the name Theodore Watts-Dunton carries little weight; if he is registered at...
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W.M. Rossetti as reluctant biographer: the Genesis of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, His Family Letters, With a Memoir.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; Watts-Dunton's eagerly awaited but never written...1883, but for twelve years Watts-Dunton delayed producing the biography, despite...Gabriel had expressed a preference for Theodore Watts-Dunton as his biographer, "unless indeed...
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Women poets as critics in the Athenaeum: ungendered anonymity unmasked.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...reviewers of poetry. It explodes the myth that Theodore Watts-Dunton dominated the poetry section in the eighties and...Victorian Society Leslie Marchand confidently declared Theodore Watts Dunton (1832-1914) to be the man who had dominated...
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The Pre-Raphaelites.(Guide to the Year's Work)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 9/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...in the work of Dante Rossetti, Walter Pater, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and Thomas Hardy, with...Thomas Hake, George Hake, Henry Treffry Dunn, Theodore Watts-Dunton, and the posthumously contrite Robert Buchanan...
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A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...seclusion of Putney with his friend and guardian Theodore Watts-Dunton, is covered more swiftly, although Rooksby includes...on the later poetry, and a perceptive profile of Watts-Dunton (pp. 250-51). Arguably Swinburne, increasingly...
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A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...submissive, brothel-hopping flagellant, who had been rescued into the safe dullness of longevity by fussy-bossy Theodore Watts-Dunton. Swinburne had the courage of his convictions - or of those things for which the Victorians thought he ought...
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Editor's preface.(From Decadent to Modernist: And Other Essays)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...and others to their decadent precursors. Catherine Maxwell's serious and discriminating study of Aylwin, Theodore Watts-Dunton's best-selling novel of the 1890s, brings into view a writer who is often thought of primarily as the companion...
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Watercolours framed
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/17/1997; 420 words
; ...acquaintances of eccentric Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne -- Benjamin Jowett, master of Balliol College, Oxford; Theodore Watts- Dunton, a London solicitor; and Mrs Doris Addams, a brothel proprietress. ``I've never played a woman before...
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Indian Poetess.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...boots across her room, told bawdy stories, and made her laugh. Women held her while she wept with pain. Critic Theodore Watts-Dunton had it right when he said that with Pauline Johnson "gratitude ... was not a sentiment merely ... but a veritable...
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"My love is a force that will force you to care": subversive sexuality in Mathilde Blind's dramatic monologues.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...women poets more generally. in his DNB entry on Christina Rossetti, for instance, he concludes that except for Goblin Market "she is, like most poetesses, purely subjective, and in no respect creative." (6) Theodore Watts-Dunton,
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Theodore Watts-Dunton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Theodore Watts-Dunton (Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton), 1832-1914, English poet, novelist, and critic. A member of the staff of the Examiner (1874-76), he became editor of the Athenaeum (1876-98). He was the benefactor of Swinburne...
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Watts-Dunton, (Walter) Theodore
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Watts-Dunton, (Walter) Theodore (1832–1914), gave up his profession as solicitor to devote himself to literature. He reviewed for the Examiner...
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...completely that a friend, Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton, took him to his home in Putney...suburb of London. There Watts-Dunton imposed a regimen that probably...years of his life with Watts-Dunton in a manner as subdued as his...
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