SOURCE: “The Poetics of Pater's Prose: ‘The Child in the House,’” in Victorian Poetry, Vol. 23, No. 3, Autumn, 1985, pp. 281-88.
In the following essay, Buckler uses “The Child in the House” as an example of how Pater combines recollection, insight, and form to make his prose poetic.
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