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The relationship of the Brontës to nature was a close one. They owed to this source the most spontaneous pleasures of their childhood, and when they discovered, as they did at an early age, the imaginative pleasures of literature, it was the Romantics that they found most congenial, and nature is one of the key words of Romanticism. For the Romantics it involved not only the physical world but the whole question of man’s relation to nature, which came to mean, as The Prelude testifies, his relation also to his fellow men, to the spiritual forces of his own nature, to God.
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Mary Ann Caws, Surrealism and the Literary Imagination, A Study of Breton and Bachelard (The Hague, 1966) p. 18. The studies by Gaston Bachelard on the poetic imagination are La Psychanalyse du feu (Paris, Gallimard, 1934); L’Eau et les rêves (Paris, Corti, 1942); L’Air et les songes (Paris, Corti, 1943); La Terre et les rêveries de la volonté (Paris, Corti, 1948); La Terre et les rêveries du repos (Paris, Corti, 1948).
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Duthie, E.L. (1986). Conclusion. In: The Brontës and Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18373-9_12
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