Note 5 — Chapter II · THE POETIC FEELING AWAKENED BY THE WORLD OF NATURE.

Since writing the above passage, I have been pleased to find in Mr. Hamerton’s Sylvan Year, the following passage, which expresses more fully the same thought. He speaks (page 68) of “the delight of the citizen in green leaves, and the intensity of sensation about Nature which we find in poets who were bred in towns; whilst those who have lived much in the country, though they know and observe more, seem to feel more equably, and to go to Nature with less of sensuous thirst and excitement.”