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The 8 pages that link to Walter Pater, each with the reason it gives.

• Oscar WildeRelated: Pater’s defense of aesthetic experience influenced the intellectual climate associated with Wilde’s art.

• AestheticismRelated: His studies of beauty and experience gave Aestheticism a distinctive critical vocabulary.

• Art for art's sakeRelated: His account of intense aesthetic experience helped define the movement’s ideal of art’s value.

• Matthew ArnoldCompared with: Pater’s emphasis on individual aesthetic experience differs from Arnold’s social ideal of culture.

• Sandro BotticelliRelated: Pater’s account contributed to Botticelli’s revival among Victorian audiences.

• Fin de siècleRelated: His writing supplied influential intellectual foundations for aestheticism.

• Gerard Manley HopkinsRelated: Pater was among Hopkins’s tutors at Oxford, where literary and aesthetic debates shaped his development.

• George SaintsburyRelated: Pater’s aesthetic criticism contrasts with Saintsbury’s stronger emphasis on historical development.