166 NATURE IN DOWNLAND 



dream of attempting to transfer to canvas. They are 

 beyond him — they are outside of the outermost limits 

 of his art. So, too, there are things innumerable that 

 mock the artist in words — even the inspired poet. Of 

 all who have written, Keats has perhaps come nearest 

 on a few rare occasions, to an expression of the feeling 

 which the visible world, in certain of its aspects and 

 certain of its sights and sounds, inspires in us. That is 

 the utmost — and how much is it ? If any man can say 

 that Keats has expressed all or as much as he has felt 

 in nature or more than he has felt, I would say of such 

 a man that he does not inhabit the same world with 

 me, but lives in some other world. 



