Works of Walter Pater

Informationen zum Autor Walter Pater (1839-1894), was an English critic, essayist, and humanist who argued that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, rather than to teach a lesson, create a parallel, or perform another didactic purpose. "Art for art's sake" is a core principle of Aestheticism, the movement he helped found. Pater's exquisite writing style and bold ideas exerted a powerful influence on such writers as Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens and has had lasting influence on the field of art criticism. Klappentext The first volume of Pater's only novel, first published in 1885 and here reissued in his collected works of 1900-1. Zusammenfassung Walter Pater (1839–94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Volume 2 of his collected works of 1900–1 is the first of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction, set in the late Roman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. 'The religion of Numa'; 2. White-nights; 3. Change of air; 4. The tree of knowledge; 5. The golden book; 6. Euphuism; 7. A pagan end; Part II: 8. Animula vagula; 9. New Cyrenaicism; 10. On the way; 11. 'The most religious city in the world'; 12. 'The divinity that doth hedge a king'; 13. The 'mistress and mother' of palaces; 14. Manly amusement.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Pater, Pater Walter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108034241
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03424-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies; The Works of Walter Pater 9 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form