Walter Pater: 40 books

Miscellaneous Studies Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Miscellaneous Studies», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

Appreciations with an Essay on Style Walter Pater, english essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction (1839-1894) This ebook presents «Appreciations with an Essay on Style», from Walter Pater. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

The era now referred to as the Renaissance represented an unparalleled blossoming of art and culture. Take a tour of the period through the imagination of Walter Pater, one of England's most renowned art historians and critics. In this volume, Pater turns his attention to a series of Renaissance masterpieces...

WITH the world of intellectual production, as with that of organic generation, nature makes no sudden starts. Natura nihil facit per saltum; and in the history of philosophy there are no absolute beginnings. Fix where we may the origin of this or that doctrine or idea, the doctrine of "reminiscence,"...

Published in 1887, Imaginary Portraits consists of four studies of fictional characters in historical settings.  They are notable not only as illustrations of Pater's aesthetic theories but as influential works of literature. The characters include “A Prince of Court Painters,” set in Valenciennes...

Published in 1889, and revised in 1890, this essay was a clarion call by Pater for art criticism based on subjective emotional, rather than moralistic, criteria.  It was met with controversy, with some critics going so far as to accuse Pater of immorality and outright hedonism.

This philosophical novel, published in 1885, uses the backdrop of Antonine Rome to elaborate Pater's ideas about Aestheticism.  His hero, Marius, is a young Italian employed as private secretary to the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Pater developed a style in this novel, and elaborated on it in his later Imaginary Portraits, which later influenced such writers as Oscar Wilde and James Joyce.

This posthumous 1895 collection brings together, from many different journals and magazines, Pater’s influential and wide-ranging writings. The contents include “Prosper Mérimée,” “Raphael,” “Pascal,” “Art Notes in Northern Italy,” “Notre-Dame d’Amiens,” “Vézelay,” “Apollo...

[T]he first true and correctly proportioned presentation of Platonism that has been given to the general reader."-Paul ShoreyThrough his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly modern frame of mind. He converts Plato's search for a primordial and transcendent unity...

These lambent essays, published in 1873, focus on Renaissance masters like Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.  The book's brief conclusory essay was to prove far more influential than what preceded it, as Pater laid out his iconoclastic artistic philosophy and called for what was essentially a hedonistic approach to art. 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.  [T]he first true and correctly proportioned presentation of Platonism that has been given to the general reader."-Paul ShoreyThrough his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly...

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) war der vermutlich berühmteste Deutsche seiner Zeit. Vor allem sein Leben, sein mühsamer Weg vom Schusterjungen zum Präsidenten der Altertümer Roms, und seine Begeisterung für die Schönheit griechischer Kunst faszinierte nicht nur adelige Sammler, sondern...

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find a universal formula for it. The value of these attempts has most often been in the suggestive and penetrating things said by the way. Such discussions help us very...

They have been renovating my father's large workroom. That delightful, tumble-down old place has lost its moss-grown tiles and the green weather-stains we have known all our lives on the high whitewashed wall, opposite which we sit, in the little sculptor's yard, for the coolness, in summertime. Among...