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Pater distinguishes various elements in medieval poetry.
The setting of the famous Conclusion seems never to have been explained. The precise kind, and object of that experience is evident in Pater's key words. But Professor Tillotson is right in noting that Arnold had already to some extent sanctioned much of Pater's Conclusion. Arnold is a father of Aestheticism but only in an oblique and problematical way. References Pater, Walter.