Jefferies, Borrow, and Thoreau 141
The neuroticism of Jefferies
Distinction between susceptibility and passion
II Jefferies as an artist 143
He loved the Earth with every nerve of his body
His acute sense of touch
Compare with Keats
Illustrations
His writings, studies, and tactile sensation
Their sensuous charm
III His mysticism 148
Illustration
Compare with Tennyson
Mysticism and hysteria
The psychology of hysteria
"Yoga" and the Sufis
Oriental ecstasies and the trances of Jefferies
Max Nordau--Professor William James
De Quincey and Jefferies compared
IV Differences between Thoreau and Jefferies 156
Praise and desire alternate in Jefferies' writings
His joy in the beauty and in the plenitude of the
Earth
V Jefferies as a thinker 158
"All things seem possible in the open air"
Defect in his Nature creed
His attitude towards the animal creation
"Good sport"
His democratic sympathies--influence of Ruskin
His stoicism
His pride and reserve
Our indebtedness to him
VII
WALT WHITMAN
I The supreme example of the Vagabond in Literature 169
Mr. Swinburne's verdict
Whitman the pioneer of a new order
No question about a "Return to Nature" with Whitman
He never left it. A spiritual native of the woods
and heath
Yet wild only so far as he is cosmic
His songs no mere paeans of rustic solitudes; they
are songs of the crowded streets as well as of the
country roads; of the men and women of every type,
no less than of the fields and streams
No quarrel with civilisation as such
His "rainproof coat" and "good shoes"
Compare with Borrow's big green gamp
II Whitman's attitude towards Art 173
Two essentials of Art--Sincerity and Beauty
Whitman's allegiance to Sincerity
Why he has chosen the better part
His occ