Excerpt from The Nature Background in the Dramas of Gerhart Hauptmann
The significance of the nature element in literary art is too well recognized to demand a special defense here. Professor Camillo von Klenze's comprehensive resume of the books and articles dealing with the nature-sense, supplemented by Miss Reynolds' bibliography and review in the introduction to her large work on "The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry between Pope and Wordsworth," - show how the subject has continued to occupy the attention of literary critics ever since the appearance in 1794 of Schiller's Essay "Uber die naive und sentimentale Dichtung". The reason for this interest, explained at some length in that standard work of Alfred Biese's, "Die Entwickelung des Naturgefuhls im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit" (1888), has been summed up in one sentence by Professor von Klenze in his article entitled "The Treatment of Nature in the Works of Nikolaus Lenau." He says "An artist's attitude toward nature, whether his medium be language or line and color, is the subtlest expression of his individuality." Corroboration of this is found again and again in statements made by nature lovers themselves. Walt Whitman hints at it parenthetically in the following description of the sea:
"The attractions, fascinations there are in sea and shore! How one dwells on their simplicity, even vacuity! What is it in us, arous'd by those indirections and directions?
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