Both Wilde and Hopkins were deeply influenced by Pater's work. Wilde wrote of pederastic and homoerotic culture -- though not in the ``elevated'' pederastic sense that it held for Pater and Hopkins -- in a number of works. And though ``Hopkins often was, it must be admitted, strikingly Ruskinian in his love of Aristotelian particulars and their arrangements ... , it was at the foot of Pater -- the foremost Victorian unifier of 'eros, pedagogy, and aesthetics' -- that Hopkins would ever remain.''
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