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Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832: 'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you for lending Synesius to me [...] I have gone thro' the whole of Synesius; and notwithstanding his occasional diffuseness & self- repetition [...] he does [italics]make you feel[end italics] that he is a poet.'