Just as nature began gradually to vanish from human life as experience…so we see it emerge in the world of the poet as an idea.


On the Naive and Sentimental in Literature (1796), tr. H. Watanabe-O'Kelly


Just as nature began gradually to vanish from human life as experience…so we see it emerge in the world of the poet as an idea.

Just as nature began gradually to vanish from human life as experience…so we see it emerge in the world of the poet as an idea.

Just as nature began gradually to vanish from human life as experience…so we see it emerge in the world of the poet as an idea.

Just as nature began gradually to vanish from human life as experience…so we see it emerge in the world of the poet as an idea.