The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

by Alfred Biese

[17]: Comp. Wilkens' Fray Luis de Leon. Halle, 1866.

[18]: Humboldt.

[19]: Comp. Carrière, Die Poesie.

[20]: Zoeckler, in Herzog's Real-Encykl., xxi., refers to 'Le Solitaire des Indes ou la Vie de Gregoire Lopez.' Goerres, Die christliche Mystik; S. Arnold, Leben der Gläubigen; French, Life of St Teresa.

CHAPTER VI

[1]: In Shakespeare Studien, chap. 4, Hense treats Shakespeare's attitude towards Nature very suggestively; but I have gone my own way.

[2]: Hamlet, i. 3: 'The canker galls the infants of the spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed.' Comp. i. 1; Romeo and Juliet, i. 1; Henry VI., part 2, iii. 1; Tempest, i. 2.

[3]: Comp. Henkel, Das Goethe'sche Gleichnis; Henry IV., 2nd pt., iv. 4; Richard II., i. i; Othello, iii. 3, and v. 2; Cymbeline, ii. 4; King John, ii. 2; Hamlet, iii. 1; Tempest, iv. 2.

[4]: See Hense for bucolic idyllic traits.

[5]: Poetische Personifikation in griechischen Dichtungen.