Selected Essays [electronic resource]
Walter Horatio Pater2019
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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.
Main title:
Selected Essays [electronic resource] / Walter Horatio Pater
Author:
Walter Horatio Pater, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet Classics, 2019
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (320 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781784106270
Language:
English
BRN:
436544
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