The book The Feeling for Nature in English Pastoral Poetry was written by author Bryan, John Thomas Ingram, 1868-1953 Here you can read free online of The Feeling for Nature in English Pastoral Poetry book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Feeling for Nature in English Pastoral Poetry a good or bad book?
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The prevailing spirit of England's helicon ap- pears to be what may be regarded as an {esthetic exhilaration in the glory of fair womanhood whose beauteous virtues are drawn on a background of fields and streams and all of earth's lovely things. It would seem that to man there is no beauty in Digitized by Googk 54 Feeling for Nature in English Pastoral nature save that which is capable of suggesting to him something pertinent of woman. There is but one answer to the query : What is love ? ** It... is December matched witti May." " It is sunshine mixed with rain." And what is beauty ? " Beauty sat batliing in a spring, Where fairest shades did hide her ; The winds blew calm, the birds did sing, 1 he cool streams ran beside her." * The " cherries ripe," f ^^'^ the fragrant wild flowers,J are but for the lips and lap of love. As the mother sheep loves her lambs, also the blossom loves the life-giving sun ; " as the birds do love the Spring ", so does the poet love his Diaphenia, white as the sun and fair as the lily.
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