I do not say he would have been incapable of such invented landscape as we find in _Oenone_ and the _Lotos-Eaters_, but it was not his way to do this.
However, he does it once; but he takes care to show that it is not real landscape he is drawing, but landscape in a picture.

In _Gerard de Lairesse_, one of the poems in _Parleyings with Certain People_, he sets himself to rival the "Walk" in Lairesse's _Art of Painting_, and he invents as a background to mythological or historic scenes, five landscapes, of dawn, morning, and noon, evening and falling night.

They may be compared with the walk in _Pauline_, and indeed one of them with its deep pool watched over by the trees recalls his description of a similar pool in _Pauline_--a lasting impression of his youth, for it is again used in _Sordello_.

These landscapes are some of his most careful natural description.

They begin with the great thunderstorm of dawn in which Prometheus is seen riveted to his rock and the eagle-hound of Zeus beside him.