B. Bullen, Pater and Contemporary Visual Art, 2010.

. Higgins-;-palgrave, . Macmillan, . Basingstoke, D. J. Delaura, H. Hebrew et al., Passing into the great romantic loves of rebellious flesh': medieval religion and the body in Walter Pater's 'Poems by William Morris' and 'Two Early French Stories'", Études Anglaises 1 (janvier 2009), Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts, pp.205-223, 1873.

J. Ruskin, Pater also discerns a whole aesthetic and poetical tradition that comprises the poets of Provence as well as Abelard and Dante in order to inscribe the contemporary school of "aesthetic poetry" within that very tradition, with Morris and Rossetti as prominent figures of that school. Studying their love poetry, Pater states that Morris and Rossetti were inspired by the themes and the peculiar aesthetic of that Provençal tradition -which are characterized by themes of sadness, madness and unrequited love. Pater's construction of the poetry of Provence in fact contributes to his critical projectdefining "Aestheticism" and legitimizing contemporary controversial poets such as Morris and Rossetti. And his discourse on medieval poetry is characterized by very personal aesthetic motifs. Keywords: Walter Pater; Provençal poetry; Aestheticism Biographical note: Anne-Florence GILLARD-ESTRADA is a lecturer at Rouen University where she teaches late-Victorian literature and visual arts. She has published articles on Walter Pater's fiction and essays, focusing on his reconstruction of Plato, his uses of Greek myths, his vision of sculpture, and his discourse on medieval religion and on contemporary aesthetic painting. She also works on the inter-textualities between Pater and Oscar Wilde, Modern Painters, vol.3, pp.267-86, 1868.

, She specializes on Hellenism and Greece in the Victorian era and particularly in Walter Pater's works, as well as on the inter-textualities with Oscar Wilde

S. For-example-inman, , pp.348-50, 1990.

E. Ii-for-example and . Burne, Jones's oil painting Laus Veneris (1873-5) and William Morris's poem "The Hill of Venus, 1870.

. See and . Rossetti's-watercolour-arthur's-tomb, Burne-Jones's The Madness of Sir Tristram (1862) or the different versions of the story of Paolo and Francesca or of The Blessed Damozel by, The Last Meeting of Lancelot and Guinevere, 1854.