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“Making Ready for Death”: Walter Pater and the Anthological Moment of “Dante Gabriel Rossetti”

On 23 February 1883, Thomas Humphry Ward dashed off a hasty note to George Macmillan, the enterprising younger son of the publisher Alexander Macmillan. Macmillan and Company had recently brought to press Ward’s landmark anthology, The English Poets, Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers (1880), and Mary Augusta Ward’s nursery romance, Milly and Olly, or A Holiday among the Mountains (1881), so Ward felt comfortable dropping formalities when addressing his publisher: