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 A series of fictionalised historical portraits, first published in 1887-9 and here reissued in Pater's collected works of 1900-1. Zusammenfassung Walter Pater (1839–94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about art. These short fictionalised portraits of historical figures, published as Imaginary Portraits (1887) and Gaston de Latour (1888–9), form part of his collected works of 1900–1. Inhaltsverzeichnis Imaginary Portraits: 1. A prince of court painters; 2. Denys l'Auxerrois; 3. Sebastian van Storck; 4. Duke Carl of Rosenmold; Gaston de Latour: 1. A clerk in orders; 2. Our Lady's church; 3. Modernity; 4. Peach-blossom and wine; 5. Suspended judgment; 6. Shadows of events; 7. The lower pantheism.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Pater, Pater Walter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108034265
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03426-5
• No. of pages: 332
• 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