Note 210 — Chapter II · INDICATIONS OF A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE IN THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Reading edition
Cf. Matthew Arnold’s
“How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves;”
and Chaucer’s “lusty nightingale” whose voice made a “loud rioting;” and Shelley’s “storm of sound;” and Wordsworth’s “tumultuous harmony;” and Keats’ “pouring forth thy soul abroad in such an ecstasy;” and Coleridge’s
The merry nightingale That crowds and hurries and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes.