AS TO LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE 



BLL the fine arts are closely inter- 

 related. They all rest on the same 

 body of principles. There are strik- 

 ing similarities between painting and 

 music. Certain poetry is said to be musical, 

 and certain statuary poetic. To some ex- 

 tent each art must have inherent possibili- 

 ties of interpretation into the language of 

 every other art. A more fertile fact is 

 that, seeing the various arts are thus apt 

 to intermingle, any one is likely to have an 

 important influence on every other one. 

 In some cases these influences are deep and 

 well marked. 



In the present state of gardening art, 

 it is too early to say what its influence has 

 been on literature, music or dancing. But, 

 as literature is the most nearly universal of 

 all the arts, the one nearest to all the 

 people, and the one in which many streams 

 of influence are most easily traced, it may 

 be possible to find that landscape has had 



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