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

CHAPTER VI

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

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 4: See Hense for bucolic idyllic traits.]

[Footnote 5: _Poetische Personifikation in griechischen Dichtungen._]