Selected Essays
by
Walter Pater
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784106267
ISBN-13
9781784106263
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Carcanet Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 27th, 2018
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
558 grams
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13.70 x 21.60 x 3.50 cms
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An annotated edition of selected essays by the major Victorian writer and aesthete Walter Pater.
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.
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