Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Contents 9
4. 1.The Dramas of Dunsany. Swans 13
5. 2. A Selborne Pilgrimage. A Late Harvest at Lake Louise 46
6. 3. Lionel Johnson, English Irishman. A True Gentleman Farmer 62
7. 4. Yorick Out-of-Doors. The Porcupine Takes his Cue 76
8. 5. The Muses in Germantown. On the Canyon's Edge 89
9. 6. The Birds of Arabia Deserta. The Real Laurel 108
10. 7. The Riddling of James Stephens. The Most Beautiful Thing in America 121
11. 8. Fifty Years of Play going. Sudden Changes 135
12. 9. With Yeats in the Woods of Coole. From Lady to Lout 176
13. 10. The Countriness of John Burroughs. The Orcadian 189
14. 11. Francis Thompson, Poet and Pariah. The Tread of the Black Giants 198
15. 12. The Rise and Fall of Stephen Phillips. The Grand Style in Nature 210
16. 13. Austin Dobson, Augustan. Mistah Moreton in Heaven 232
17. 14. Dr. Douglas Hyde and his Songs of Connacht. A Parlor Table Book of Yesterday 242
18. 15. The Out-of-Door Essays of W. H. Hudson. A Bridge to Autumn 255
19. 16. The Plays and Poetry of John Masefield. Flittermouse 280
20. Index 317