Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
By Walter Pater
- Release Date: 1894-01-01
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
Progress of mind consists for the most part in differentiation, in the resolution of an obscure and complex object into its component aspects, it is surely the stupidest of losses to confuse things which right reason has put asunder, to lose the sense of achieved distinctions, the distinction between poetry and prose, for instance, or, to speak more exactly, between the laws and characteristic excellences of verse and prose composition.
