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Appreciations (1889)"A Study of Dionysus" repr. in Greek Studies: A Series of Essays, Macmillan (1895)"Coleridge's Writings" repr., expanded, as "Coleridge" in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889)"Conclusion" repr. in Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Macmillan (1873)"Dante Gabriel Rossetti" repr. in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889)

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Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common things ... or it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.

Walter Pater

Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. Originally published in The English poets, ed. by T.H. Ward (1883). "Dante Gabriel Rossetti," p. 242, repr. In Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, Macmillan (1889).

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