[55] Rostand has hit off this change in the Balcony Scene of his Cyrano de Bergerac.
[56] Essay on Simple and Sentimental Poetry.
[57] The life of Rousseau by Gerhard Gran is written from this point of view.
The world’s great age begins anew,
The golden years return, etc.
Hellas, vv. 1060 ff.
[59] For an excellent analysis of Shelley’s idealism see Leslie Stephen’s Godwin and Shelley in his Hours in a Library.
[60] Letters, II, 292.
[61] See his letter to Wordsworth, 30 January, 1801.