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In his tastes and his attitudes, his insistence that literature should emulate music, Pater came as close as the English could to the French Symbolist movement with something of the Symbolists' sacramentality, but in his case donnishly, even modestly, retiringly so.
Literary relations: Pater, Hopkins, and me. (Theodore Weiss) by The American Poetry Review
 
 
 
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