SOURCE: “Walter Pater: A Partial Portrait” in Walter Pater (Modern Critical Views), edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 1985, pp. 75-95.
In the following essay, originally published in 1976, Miller examines Pater's thoughts on such topics as time, virtue, personality, uniqueness, repetition, form, meaning, and subjectivity; he also contends that the various and contradictory readings of his positions are irreconcilable.
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