LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE 



is no seacoast for Bohemia, we are alto- 

 gether familiar with the one on which poor 

 Perdita was abandoned. 



On the whole, we may conclude that 

 the great master of the drama was also a 

 master of landscape painting; and it seems 

 fairly clear, moreover, that it was in part 

 his masterful manner of presenting the 

 scenery in his lines that makes his scenes 

 so lifelike, and that gives us such a feeling 

 of completeness in his work as a whole. 



The Bible, being the very best of 

 literature, has in it the very best of land- 

 scape. The Jewish people, who gave us the 

 bulk of this literature, were not artists 

 nor landscape gardeners nor nature lovers. 

 But they were poets and prophets and seers, 

 and Jehovah spoke to them daily in the 

 landscape. The Hebrew Psalmist is always 

 in close and sympathetic touch with field 

 and brook and sky. His Shepherd led him 

 in green pastures and beside still waters. 

 To him the heavens declared the glory of 

 God and the firmament showed His handi- 

 work. He had seen, with the fear and joy 

 of an open-hearted boy, the great storms 

 gather on the hills and break over the 

 valleys, for he said: 



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