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Intrinsic earthliness: science, materialism, and The Fleshly School of Poetry.(Critical Essay)

From: Victorian Poetry  |  Date: 3/22/2003  |  Author: Dawson, Gowan

DURING THE ARDUOUS PERIOD IN WHICH HE WAS WRITING HIS HIGHLY WROUGHT historical novel Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater published only one minor unsigned review. In March 1883, however, he agreed, albeit rather hesitantly, to a request from his friend Thomas Humphry Ward that he contribute a brief introductory essay on Dante Gabriel Rossetti to the revised second edition of The English Poets which Ward was then compiling. (1) Pater had already followed the same format three years ...

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