BY AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF THE SEASONS," ETC. Luce Campbell S.WILLIAMS IN TWO VOLUMES.-VOL. II. LONDON: LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS. lavard College Library: 17 Nov. 1892, Gift of BARTLETT JOHN of Cambridge. LONDON: PRINTED BY MANNING AND SMITHSON, CONTENTS. Love of the Sublime and Beautiful in Nature more eminently developed in Modern than in Classical Literature-The Fact striking, that the Love of Nature is so conspicuous in our Literature, more faint in that of the Continent, still more in that of the Ancients-This Affection only developed in proportion to the Intellectual Culture of our Nature- The same objects pursued in Art as in Literature, the Sub- lime and Beautiful-The Greek Poets more cognizant of the Amenities than the Sublimity of Nature-Homer the greatest Exception-Instances of his higher Perceptions- Hesiod nearly destitute of it-Theocritus most alive to the Picturesque-His Picture of the Two Fishermen, of King Anycus, of a Drinking-cup-His luxurious sense of Out- of-Door Enjoyment-Love of Nature amongst the Romans -One Cause of the continuance of their Simplicity of Life -Instanced in Virgil, Horace, and Cicero-Modern Litera- ture a New World of Feeling and Sentiment-Difference between Longinus and Burke-Love of Nature in the Ancients, incidental - Ours a perpetual Affection - In- stanced in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron-Originating cause to be found in Christianity-Development of it in Development of the Love of the Country greater in English Page Literature kindred to the English-The Idylls of Voss- Testimony of a French Writer to our greater Love of Influence of Wood-engraving on the Love of the Picturesque in the Country-Introduction of Stereotyping Wood-cuts in the Cheap Magazines-Probable Results from the Use of the Art-In what respects Wood is superior to Copper or Steel-Causes that prevent the Successors of Bewick equal- CHAPTER I. The Forests of England-Our Forests amongst our most in- 59 |