it from goodwill, is the feeling of longing, πόθος, in
the absence of the beloved person. It is singular
that this feeling should be entertained towards inani-
mate objects, when they have become habitual to us
or associated with our history; but it is impossible
to mistake the sameness of the feeling, the ground-
feeling of affection, towards home and objects familiar
as home, and of the longing for them in absence;
but it must be observed that in all these cases there
is personification of the beloved objects in imagina-
tion, and they always form a groundwork of poetical
feeling in the person who experiences them. For
instance, the most beautiful expression of this feeling
for home is also one of the most beautiful passages
in poetry, I mean the lines of Catullus beginning
Pæne insularum, Sirmio. Another form of the same
feeling is that towards the soil and ground of our
native country, a feeling somewhat different from
patriotism though contained in it, a feeling expressed
by Wordsworth in the lines,

"O joy when the girdle of England appears;
What moment of life is so conscious of love,
Of love in the heart, made more happy by tears?"

Although these forms of affection are imaginative
and the groundwork of poetry, they do not by them-
selves belong to the imaginative section of the re-
flective emotions; because the imagination is not in
the reflection but in the object, or rather in the pre-
vious reflection constituting the object, not in subse-
quent reflection upon it. When the reflective emo-
tions are themselves imagined, then only are they
themselves poetry or poetical imagination. The re-
presentation constituting objects of reflective emotion

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