AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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the novel
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nonfiction prose
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the lyric
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comic drama
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Pater, style is not the product of external forces only which work upon the artist’s personality. Though the artist’s personality is formed by the external forces, there is no direct relation between the external forces and style.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the concluding essay in The Renaissance, Pater asserted that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it acknowledges neither moral standards nor utilitarian functions in its reason for being. These views brought Pater into an association with Algernon Charles Swinburne and with the Pre-Raphaelites.
Detailed explanation-3: -Freshness In His Works: A. C. Benson called Pater’s style “absolutely distinctive and entirely new", suggesting that there was some peculiar newness in his works.
Detailed explanation-4: -Walter Pater, an essayist and a literary critic, defines romanticism as “addition of strangeness to beauty”. In his view the crucial elements of romanticism are “curiosity and the love of beauty”. Here Peter is referring to the beauty won by strong imagination out of likely or remote things.