A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
-- Walter Pater
   
Walter Pater   Name:
Walter Pater
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
English
Birth:
August 4, 1839
Death:
July 30, 1894
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