it._]

[Footnote 14: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]

[Footnote 15: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]

[Footnote 16: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]

[Footnote 17: Comp. Wilkens' _Fray Luis de Leon_. Halle, 1866.]

[Footnote 18: Humboldt.]

[Footnote 19: Comp. Carriere, _Die Poesie_.]

[Footnote 20: Zoeckler, in Herzog's _Real-Encykl._, xxi., refers to
'Le Solitaire des Indes ou la Vie de Gregoire Lopez.' Goerres, _Die
christliche Mystik_; S. Arnold, _Leben der Glaeubigen_; French, _Life
of St Teresa_.]

CHAPTER VI

[Footnote 1: In _Shakespeare Studien_, chap. 4, Hense treats
Shakespeare's attitude towards Nature very suggestively; but I have
gone my own way.]

[Footnote 2: _Hamlet_, i. 3: 'The canker galls the infants of the
spring too oft before their buttons be disclosed.' Comp. i. 1; _Romeo
and Juliet_, i. 1; _Henry VI._, part 2, iii. 1; _Tempest_, i. 2.]

[Footnote 3: Comp. Henkel, _Das Goethe'sche Gleichnis_; _Henry IV._,
2nd pt., iv. 4; _Richard II._, i. i; _Othello_, iii. 3, and v. 2;
_Cymbeline_, ii. 4; _King John_, ii. 2; _Hamlet_, iii. 1; _Tempest_,
iv. 2.]

[Footnote 4: See Hense for bucolic idyllic traits.]

[Footnote 5: _Poetische Personifikation in griechischen Dichtungen._]

CHAPTER VII

[Footnote 1: Comp. Woermann, _Ueber den landschaftlichen Natursinn
der Griechen und Roemer, Vorstudien zu einer Arckaeologie der
Landschaftsmalerei_. Muenchen, 1871.]

[Footnote 2: Comp. Schnaase, _Geschichte der bildenden Kuenste im 15
Jahrhundert_, edited by Luebke. Stuttgart, 1879.]

[Footnote 3: Falke, _Geschichte des modernen Geschmacks_. Leipzig,
1880]

[Footnote 4: _Geschichte der deutschen Renaissance_. Stuttgart,
1873.]

[Footnote 5: Comp. also Kaemmerer, _op. cit._]

[Footnote 6: Lubke, _op. cit._]

[Footnote 7: Lubke refers to A. von Zahn's searching work, _Durer's
Kunstlehre und sein Verhaeltnis zur Renaissance_. Leipzig, 1866.]

[Footnote 8: Proportion III., B.T. iii. b. Nuremberg, 1528.]

[Footnote 9: _Op. cit._]

[Footnote 10: In what follows, I have borrowed largely from
Rosenberg's interesting writings (_Greuzboten_, Nos. 43 and 44,
1884-85), and still more from Schnaase, Falke, and Carriere, as I
myself only know the masters represented at Berlin and Munich.]

[Footnote 11: Kaemmerer, _op. cit._]

[Footnote 12: Kaemmerer, _op. cit._]

CHAPTER VIII

[Footnote 1: _Renaissance und Humanismus in Italien und
Deut