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Wordsworth's Gospel of Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Extract

The last hundred years have destroyed the social, political, artistic, philosophical and religious beliefs of the past and substituted new ones. While no one of these new ones has proven satisfactory, it is particularly in the domain of religion that the experiments of a century have borne little fruit. The spiritual indecision of to-day unquestionably had its origin in the peculiar variety of religion which the romantic era gave to the world.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 1922 , pp. 615 - 638
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1922

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References

1 John Hunt, Pantheism and Christianity, p. 306.

2 Quoted by E. V. Lucas, Life of Lamb, p. 557.

3 From Aubrey De Vere, quoted by F. W. H. Myers, Wordsworth, p. 144.

4 It is as Emerson, a good lover of nature, says:

We flee away from cities, but we bring
The best of cities with us …
… We praise the forest life:
But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore
Of books and arts … ?
And Nature, the inscrutable and mute …