Pater, Walter (Horatio) - Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (essay date 1983)

Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (essay date 1983)

SOURCE: “Pater's Imperative—To Dwell Poetically,” in New Literary History, Vol. XV, No. 1, Autumn, 1983, pp. 93-118.

[In the following essay, Scott describes the plot of Marius the Epicurean and defends Pater against critics who, he contends, misread his appeal in “the central statement of his career.”]

                                                                                I require of you only to look.

St. Teresa of Avila

                                                                                 … yet poetically, dwells
                                                                                Man on this...

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