. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . re soil. The valleyof the Tw^eed and the mountains about the Scotchlakes form a natural background for Scotts poetry;the Ayrshire landscape rises into view again andaeain in the verse of Burns; the lake district ofCumberland, with its mists and multitudinous voicesof hidden streams, lies behind Wordsworths like manner, Warwickshire lies always in thebackground of Shakespeares mind, and gives form,quality, and colour to the landscape of his dramatic necessity imposes catastrophiceffects upon him, as in Lear and Macbeth,Sha
. William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . re soil. The valleyof the Tw^eed and the mountains about the Scotchlakes form a natural background for Scotts poetry;the Ayrshire landscape rises into view again andaeain in the verse of Burns; the lake district ofCumberland, with its mists and multitudinous voicesof hidden streams, lies behind Wordsworths like manner, Warwickshire lies always in thebackground of Shakespeares mind, and gives form,quality, and colour to the landscape of his dramatic necessity imposes catastrophiceffects upon him, as in Lear and Macbeth,Shakespeares landscape is reposeful, touched withripe and tender beauty, happily balanced betweenextremes in temperature, happily poised betweenausterity and prodigality in beauty. Its lovelinesshas more solidity and substance than that which theNew England poets loved so well, and the fragranceof which, as delicate as that of the arbutus, they havecaught and preserved; while, on the other hand, ithas not the voluptuous note, the beguiling and pas-. THE PATH FROM THE FOREST OF AKDEN TO STRATFORD. A typical English foot-path through the meadows, with hedges of hawthorn on eitherside. These paths are sometimes reached by a stile, as in this case, and sometimesby a kissing-gate. 64 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE sionate sensuousness, of the Italian landscape. Thebeauty of the country in which Rosalind wandersand Jacques meditates is more harmonious withmans spiritual fortunes and less sympathetic withhis passion than that in which Romeo and Julietlive out the brief and ardent drama of that younglove which sees nothino- in the world save thereflection of itself. The landscape of the Forest ofArden knows all the changes of the season, andbends the most obsequious courtier to its condi-tions; it has a quiet and pervasive charm for thesenses, but its deepest appeal is to the imagination;there is in it a noble reticence and restraint whichexact much before it surrenders its ultimate loveli-ness, and
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