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.”
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