The conventional image of Pater as a narrow aesthete or fastidious connoisseur is contradicted by these volumes. What emerges instead is a man of formidable learning and intellectual scope, a polyglot in modern as well as ancient languages, and a relentless critic of disciplinary boundaries.
Saturday, February 01, 2020
Finding a place for him …
… Elizabeth Prettejohn | Surplusage! — LRB 27 January 2020. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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