r,
dealt with Mr. Pater's contributions to the study of Greek art,
mythology, and poetry. The present volume has no such unifying
principle. Some of the papers would naturally find their place
alongside of those collected in Imaginary Portraits, or in
Appreciations, or in the Studies in the Renaissance. And there is no
doubt, in the case of several of them, that Mr. Pater, if he had lived,
would have subjected them to careful revision before allowing them to
reappear in a permanent form. The task, which he left unexecuted,
cannot now be taken up by any other hand. But it is hoped that
students of his writings will be glad to possess, in a collected shape,
what has hitherto only been accessible in the scattered volumes of
magazines. It is with some hesitation that the paper on Diaphaneite,
the last in this volume, has been added, as the only specimen known to
[2] be preserved of those early essays of Mr. Pater's, by which his
literary gifts were first made known to the small circle of his Oxford
friends.

Subjoined is a brief chronological list of his published writings. It
will be observed how considerable a period, 1880 to 1885, was given up
to the composition of Marius the Epicurean, the most highly finished of
all his works, and the expression of his deepest thought.

August, 1895.

A CHRONOLOGY OF PATER'S WORKS, 1866-1895

(Adapted from a compilation by Charles L. Shadwell in the 1895
Macmillan edition of Miscellaneous Studies.)

1866.

COLERIDGE. Appeared in Westminster Review, January, 1866. Reprinted
1889 in Appreciations.

1867.

WINCKELMANN. Appeared in Westminster Review, January, 1867. Reprinted
1873 in Studies in the Renaissance.

1868.

*AESTHETIC POETRY. Written in 1868. First published 1889 in
Appreciations. (Not included in the 1910 Macmillan Library Edition,
but published separately at Project Gutenberg and
www.ajdrake.com/etexts.)

1869.

NOTES ON LEONARDO DA VINCI. Appeared in Fortnightly Review in
November, 1869. Reprinted 1873 in Studies in the Renaissance.

1870.

SANDRO BOTTICELLI. Appeared in Fortnightly Review in August, 1870,
entitled "A Fragment on Sandro Botticelli." Reprinted 1873 in Studies
in the Renaissance.

1871.

PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA. Appeared in Fortnightly Review in October, 1871.
Reprinted 1873 in Studies in the Renaissance.

POETRY OF MICHELANGELO. Appeared in Fortnightly Review in November,
1871. Reprinted 1873 in Studies in the R