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 collection of articles on Greek thought, art and architecture, published in 1895 and reissued in Pater's collected works (1900-1). Zusammenfassung Walter Pater (1839–94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. The collection of Pater's articles on ancient Greek thought, poetry, sculpture and architecture presented in this volume had previously been published in 1895 and is reissued here as part of his collected works (1900–1). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; A study of Dionysus: the spiritual form of fire and dew; The Bacchanals of Euripides; The myth of Demeter and Persephone; Hippolytus veiled: a study from Euripides; The beginning of Greek sculpture; The marbles of Aegina; The age of athletic prizemen: a chapter in Greek art.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Pater, Pater Walter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108034296
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03429-6
• No. of pages: 310
• 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