~Johann Ludwig Tieck~ (1773-1853) was one of the most prominent of the German romanticists. He was especially felicitous in the rehandling of the old German fairy tales. The passage quoted above is from Heine's _Germany_, Part II, book II, chap. II. The following is the translation of C.G. Leland, slightly altered: "In these compositions we feel a mysterious depth of meaning, a marvellous union with nature, especially with the realm of plants and stones. The reader seems to be in an enchanted forest; he hears subterranean springs and streams rustling melodiously and his own name whispered by the trees. Broad-leaved clinging plants wind vexingly about his feet, wild and strange wonderflowers look at him with vari-colored longing eyes, invisible lips kiss his cheeks with mocking tenderness, great funguses like golden bells grow singing about the roots of trees." [278] _Winter's Tale_, IV, iii, 118-20. [279] Arnold doubtless refers to the passage in _The Solitary Reaper_ referred to in a similar connection in the essay on Maurice de Guérin, though Wordsworth has written two poems _To the Cuckoo_. [280] The passage on the mountain birch-tree, which is quoted in the essay on Maurice de Guérin, is from Sénancour's _Obermann_, letter 11. For his delicate appreciation of the Easter daisy see _Obermann_, letter 91. PAGE 188 [281]. Pope's _Iliad_, VIII, 687. [282] Propertius, _Elegies_, book I, 20, 21-22: "The band of heroes covered the pleasant beach with leaves and branches woven together." [283] _Idylls_, XIII, 34. The present reading of the line gives[Greek: hekeito, mega]: "A meadow lay before them, very good for beds." [284] From the _Ode to a Grecian Urn_. PAGE 189 [285] That is, _Dedication_. [286] From the _Ode to a Nightingale_. [287] _Ibid._ PAGE 190 [288] Virgil, _Eclogues_, VII, 45. [289] _Ibid._, II, 47-48: "Plucking pale violets and the tallest poppies, she joins with them the narcissus and the flower of the fragrant dill." [290] _Ibid._, II, 51-52: "I will gather quinces, white with delicate down, and chestnuts." [291] _Midsummer Night's Dream_, II, i, 249-52. [292] _Merchant of Venice_, V, i, 58-59. [293] _Midsummer Night's Dream_, II, i, 83-85. PAGE 191 [294] _Merchant of Venice_, V, i, 1 ff. GEORGE SAND PAGE 192 [295] Reprinted from the _Fortnightly Review_ for June, 1877, in _Mixed Essays_, Smith, Elder & Co., 1879. ~Amandine Lucile Aurore Dudevant~, née ~Dupin~ (1804-76), was the most prolific woman writer of France. The pseudonym ~George Sand~ was a combination of George, the typical Berrichon name, and Sand, abbreviated from (Jules) Sandeau, in collaboration with whom she began her literary career. [296] ~Indiana~, George Sand's first novel, 1832.