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| | A Remark by Benjamin Jowett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The choice of Jowett, one of the major Oxford figures of his age, makes a much more specific point, since Jowett, who is today most famous for his graceful translations of Plato, was hardly a philistine. |
 | | At various times Master of Balliol, Regius Professor of Greek, and Vice Chancellor of the University, Jowett was an enormously influential religious liberal and Broad Church Anglican. |
 | | From the vantage point of the aesthetic value of the Grail legend, this plate therefore mocks Jowett; but from the vantage point of Beerbohm's own modern approach to belief, it mocks the Pre-Raphaelite and Rossettian longing for mystery. |
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