Selected Writings of Walter Pater

Selected Writings of Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1982
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231054812

Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies, and Sketches and Reviews, as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthetician and literary critic of Victorian England, brought his powerful imagination to bear on a wide range of subjects: from the drama of Euripides to the painters of the Renaissance, from the Romantic poets to the pre-Raphaelites, from Plato to Oscar Wilde. In the twentieth century, Pater's theories of art and literature exerted a strong inluence on the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens.

The Works of Walter Pater

The Works of Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110803425X

The first volume of Pater's only novel, first published in 1885 and here reissued in his collected works of 1900-1.

Walter Pater

Walter Pater
Author: Kate Hext
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748683585

Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging moder

Selected Essays

Selected Essays
Author: Walter Pater
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1784106275

Famed for his singular prose style as much as for his controversial aestheticist principles, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was one of the great essayists in a century of great essayistic writing. His first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance — one of the most original and influential texts of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement — was described by Arthur Symons as 'the most beautiful book of prose in our literature', and his later work moved Vernon Lee to call him 'the natural exponent of the highest aesthetic doctrine'. Selected Essays is a generous gathering of Pater's essays on literature, art, history, philosophy and mythology — all of them, in the words of Oscar Wilde, 'delicately wrought works of art'. The selection is accompanied by Alex Wong's critical and biographical introduction and rich explanatory notes.

Oscar Wilde in Context

Oscar Wilde in Context
Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107016134

Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture
Author: Lene Østermark-Johansen
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781409405849

Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture is the first monograph to discuss the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. Bringing together Pater's aesthetic theories with his theories on language and writing, it demonstrates how his ideas of the visual and written language are closely interlinked. This study throws new light on the extraordinary complexity and coherence of Pater's writing, and repositions him solidly within Victorian art and literature.