For a few weeks everything he did and said seemed as easy and unconditioned as the actions in a dream.

Such ideas do not spring up uncaused and unconditioned in vacant space.

It was through the lyric that the pastoral ideal and pastoral colouring most deeply penetrated and influenced existing forms; for the lyric, the freest and most unconditioned of all poetical kinds, the least tied to the circumstances and limitations of the actual world, was particularly fitted to extract the fragrance from the pastoral ideal without raising any unseasonable questions as to its rational or actual possibility.