Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls.

The New Leader | June 5, 1995| | Copyright

As a graduate student at Harvard, I took a seminar in Victorian Criticism taught by an eminent visiting professor from the University of London, Geoffrey Tillotson. When I told him I planned a term paper on Walter Pater, he was mildly taken aback. Arnold or Ruskin perhaps, but Pater? Though I got a good grade, I remember Tillotson saying to me afterward that I would be better off outside academia, as a critic on the order of Theophile Gautier. I was banished to the sybaritic Siberia of literary journalism from the higher discipline of scholarship.

Pater has always seemed ...

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