The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern TimesBiese, Alfred
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The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Biese, Alfred
Nature; Nature in literature
[Footnote 1: '_Die Alpen im Lichte verschiedener Zeitalter_,'
_Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Vorträge_, Virchow und Holtzendorff.
Berlin, 1877.]
[Footnote 2:
Geschäfte Zwang und Grillen Entweihn nicht diese Trift;
Ich finde hier im Stillen Des Unmuts Gegengift.
Es webet, wallt, und spielet, Das Laub um jeden Strauch,
Und jede Staude fühlet Des lauen Zephyrs Hauch.
Was mir vor Augen schwebet Gefällt und hüpft und singt,
Und alles, alles lebet, Und alles scheint verjüngt.
Ihr Thäler und ihr Höhen Die Lust und Sommer schmückt!
Euch ungestört zu sehen, Ist, was mein Herz erquickt.
Die Reizung freier Felder Beschämt der Gärten Pracht,
Und in die offnen Wälder Wird ohne Zwang gelacht....
In jährlich neuen Schätzen zeigt sich des Landmanns Glück,
Und Freiheit und Ergötzen Erheitern seinen Blick....
Ihm prangt die fette Weide Und die betante Flur;
Ihm grünet Lust und Freude Ihm malet die Natur.']
[Footnote 3: _Litteratur geschichte_.]
[Footnote 4: _Sämtliche poetische Werke_, J.P. Uz. Leipzig, 1786.]
[Footnote 5: _Sämtliche Werke_. Berlin, 1803.]
[Footnote 6: _Sämtliche Werke_, J.G. Jacobi, vol. viii. Zurich,
1882.]
[Footnote 7: He said of his garden at Freiburg, which was laid out in
terraces on a slope, that all that Flora and Pomona could offer was
gathered there. It had a special Poet's Corner on a hillock under a
poplar, where a moss-covered seat was laid for him upon some
limestone rock-work; white and yellow jasmine grew round, and laurels
and myrtles hung down over his head. Here he would rest when he
walked in the sun; on his left was a mossy Ara, a little artificial
stone altar on which he laid his book, and from here he could gaze
across the visible bit of the distant Rhine to the Vosges, and give
himself up undisturbed to his thoughts.]
[Footnote 8: Gessners _Schriften_. Zurich, 1770.]
[Footnote 9: Spalding, _Die Bestimmung des Menschen_. Leipzig, 1768.]
[Footnote 10: Klopstock's _Briefe_. Brunswick, 1867.]
[Footnote 11: Comp. _Odes_, 'Die Kunst Tialfs' and 'Winterfreuden.']
[Footnote 12: _Briefe_.]
[Footnote 13: Julian Schmidt.]
[Footnote 14: Comp. his letters from Switzerland, which contain
nothing particular about the scenery, although he crossed the Lake of
Zurich, and 'a wicked mountain' to the Lake of Zug and Lucerne.]
[Footnote 15: Claudius, who, at a time when the lyric both of poetry
and music was lost in Germany in conventional tea and coffee songs,
was the first to rediscover the direct expression of feeling--that
is, Nature feeling. (Storm's _Hausbuch_.)]
CHAPTER XI
[Footnote 1: I have obtained much information and suggestion from
'_Ueber die geographische Kenntnis der Alpen im Mittelalter_,' and
'_Ueber die Alpine Reiselitteratur in fruherer Zeit_,' in _Allgem.
Zeitung_. Jan. 11, 1885, and Sept. 1885, respectively.]
[Footnote 2: _Evagatorium 3, Bibliothek d. litterar. Vereins_.
Stuttgart, 1849.]
[Footnote 3: _Bibliothek des litterar. Vereins_. Stuttgart, 1886.]
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