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: -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-2: -Aestheticism: Walter Pater is the man behind ‘Art for Art’s sake’, which even Oscar Wilde advocated of, the glimpse of which can be found in their writings. He evaluates art and his writing is thus related to art on the basis of their moral and educational value.
Detailed explanation-3: -Appreciations and Plato and Platonism In 1889 Pater published Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, a collection of previously-printed essays on literature. It was well received.
Detailed explanation-4: -Oscar Wilde, Pater’s disciple, ridicules Wordsworth’s naturalism in his “Decay of Lying.” Why the two aesthetes take such opposing views of the poet?