1. Virginia Woolf, ‘On Not Knowing Greek’, The Essays of Virginia Woolf, ed. Andrew McNeillie, 4 vols (Hogarth Press, London: 1986–94), vol. 4, 38–53, p. 38. The essay was originally published in the first edition of The Common Reader (1925).
2. For a detailed study of the cultural implications of ‘knowing Greek’ from the Renaissance to modernism see Simon Goldhill, Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
3. Walter Pater, ‘Poems by William Morris’, Westminster Review 34 (October 1868), 300–12, p. 307.
4. Pater, The Renaissance, in The New Library Edition of the Works of Walter Pater, 10 vols (London: Macmillan, 1910), vol. 1, p. 125. Unless specified, all references to Pater will be to this edition and will be made by volume and page number in the body of the text.
5. Pater, ‘Æsthetic Poetry’, in Appreciations (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), 213–27. The essay is not included in the Library Edition.