he Preface to Gray Days and Gold_.

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"But it has seemed to the author of these poems--which of course are
offered as absolutely impersonal--that they are the expression of
various representative moods of human feeling and various representative
aspects of human experience, and that therefore they may possibly
possess the inherent right to exist."--_From the Preface_.

"The verse of Mr. Winter is dedicated mainly to love and wine, to
flowers and birds and dreams, to the hackneyed and never-to-be-exhausted
repertory of the old singers. His instincts are strongly conservative;
his confessed aim is to belong to 'that old school of English Lyrical
Poetry, of which gentleness is the soul, and simplicity the
garment.'"--_Saturday Review_.

"The poems have a singular charm in their graceful spontaneity."--_Scots
Observer_.

"Free from cant and rant--clear cut as a cameo, pellucid as a mountain
brook. It may be derided as trite, _borne_, unimpassioned; but in its
own modest sphere it is, to our thinking, extraordinarily successful,
and satisfies us far more than the pretentious mouthing which receives
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"The fame of the actor more than that of any other artist is an
evanescent one--a 'bubble reputation'--indeed, and necessarily so from
the conditions under which his genius is exercised. While the impression
it makes is often more vivid and inspiring for the moment than that of
the poet and the painter, it vanishes almost with the occasion which
gave it birth, and lives only as a tradition in the memory of those to
whom it had immediately appealed. 'Shadows they are, and shadows they
pursue.'

"The writer, therefore, who, gifted with insight and a poetic enthusiasm
which enables him to discern on the one hand the beauties in a dramatic
work not perceived by the many, and on the other the qualities in the
actor which have made him a true interpreter of the poet's thought, at
the same time possessing the faculty of revealing to us felicitously the
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