which went into it by the unconscious
action of his whole nature; but no
one can study the plays intelligently
without becoming more and more
clearly aware of those depths of life
which moved in the poet before they
moved in his work; which enlarged,
enriched, and silently reorganised his
view of life and his power of trans-
lating life out of individual into uni-
versal terms. It would be impossible,
for instance, to write such a play as
"The Tempest" by sheer force of
intellect; in the creation of such a
work there is involved, beyond liter-
ary skill, calculation, and deep study
of the relation of thought to form, a
ripeness of spirit, a clearness of in-
sight, a richness of imagination, which
are so much part of the very soul of
the poet that he does not separate
them in thought, and cannot con-

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