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On the Poetic Interpretation of Nature

by John Campbell Shairp

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Sources of Poetry
  3. 3Chapter II — The Poetic Feeling Awakened by the World of Nature
  4. 4Chapter III — Poetic and Scientific Wonder
  5. 5Chapter IV — Will Science Put Out Poetry?
  6. 6Chapter V — How Far Science May Modify Poetry
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Mystical Side of Nature
  8. 8Chapter VII — Primeval Imagination Working on Nature — Language and…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Some of the Ways in Which Poets Deal With Nature
  10. 10Chapter IX — Nature in Hebrew Poetry, and in Homer
  11. 11Chapter X — Nature in Lucretius and Virgil
  12. 12Chapter XI — Nature in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton
  13. 13Chapter XII — Return to Nature Begun by Allan Ramsay and Thomson
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Nature in Collins, Gray, Goldsmith, and Burns
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Wordsworth as an Interpreter of Nature

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