George MacDonald

A Dish of Orts

First published
1893 (enlarged from Orts, 1882)
Length
89,000 words, about 6 hours' reading

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Essays on the imagination, fairy tales, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Shelley.

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. The Imagination: Its Functions and its Culture
  3. A Sketch of Individual Development
  4. St. George’s Day, 1564
  5. The Art of Shakspere, as Revealed by Himself
  6. The Elder Hamlet
  7. On Polish
  8. Browning’s “Christmas Eve”
  9. Essays on Some of the Forms of Literature
  10. The History and Heroes of Medicine
  11. Wordsworth’s Poetry
  12. Shelley
  13. A Sermon
  14. True Christian Ministering
  15. The Fantastic Imagination

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