That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
-- Walter Pater
   
Walter Pater   Name:
Walter Pater
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
English
Birth:
August 4, 1839
Death:
July 30, 1894
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