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Imaginary Portraits (Esprios Classics)

By: Walter Horatio Pater

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The Renaissance

By: Walter Horatio Pater

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Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, 1867), his essay on Winckelmann, the first expression of his idealism, appeared in the same review. In the following year his study of Aesthetic Poetry appeared in the Fortnightly Review. By the time his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean appeared, however, he had gathered quite a following. This, his chief contribution to literature, was published early in 1885. In 1887 he published Imaginary Portraits, a series of essays in philosophic fiction; in 1889, Appreciations, with an Essay on Style; in 1893, Plato and Platonism; and in 1894, The Child in the House. His Greek Studies and his Miscellaneous Studies were collected posthumously in 1895; his posthumous romance of Gaston de Latour in 1896; and his essays from The Guardian were privately printed in 1897.

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Tutis Digital Pub

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8132030419

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9788132030416

Essays from 'The Guardian' (Esprios Classics)

By: Walter Horatio Pater

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1006034390

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9781006034398

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

By: Walter Horatio Pater

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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

By: Walter Horatio Pater

Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers.

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153

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Lulu.com

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1291461612

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9781291461619

Essays from 'The Guardian'

By: Walter Horatio Pater

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1406541311

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Three Imaginary Portraits (Noumena Classics)

By: Walter Pater,May Ottley

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Three Imaginary Portraits (Noumena Classics)

By: Walter Pater,May Ottley

In an idealized memory of childhood, a young boy's awareness of the world around him blossoms-an awareness of beauty and wonder, but also of death . . . the meeting of a mysterious stranger and a fanciful young woman results in the auspicious birth of a child with the soul of a poet . . . a submissive youth from a venerable family goes off to school and befriends a kindred spirit, but when war breaks out the two join the army and make a fateful decision that will forever change the course of their lives . . . Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist, art critic, and academic best remembered for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a book at the forefront of the aesthetic movement which advocated "art for art's sake" and considered a successful life to "burn always with this hard, gemlike flame." Pater also wrote a series of what he termed "Imaginary Portraits," a type of literary vignette of his own devising that masterfully blended elements of biography, prose poem, and short story. While most of the Portraits take the form of historical recreations, the three collected in this edition (The Child in the House, An English Poet, and Emerald Uthwart) are contemporary to Pater's own time and are perhaps the most autobiographical. Previously appearing in the posthumous Miscellaneous Studies, The Child in the House and Emerald Uthwart are better served thematically in a separate volume. They are reprinted here along with An English Poet, a nearly forgotten, unfinished, and unpublished Portrait of Pater's that appears in book form for the first time. With regard to their influence, there is evidence to suggest that the Imaginary Portraits, especially The Child in the House, greatly inspired Proust in his writing of In Search of Lost Time.

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0976706210

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9780976706212

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX: Correspondence

By: Robert Seiler

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The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX: Correspondence

By: Robert Seiler

Imaginary Portraits' is volume 3 in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for its own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. Pater's Imaginary Portraits are among some of the most stylish and original pieces of short fiction in Victorian literature: portrayals of a series of handsome male protagonists across the ages of European history, set against a range of evocative European backdrops from Classical Greece to Medieval France, eighteenth-century Germany and modern England. Together, they constitute a remarkable testimony to Pater's profound understanding of centuries of cultural history, reworked in the0hybrid genre of the imaginary portrait as sophisticated portrait miniatures of minor characters touched and affected by major moments in European history. They question central issues of nationhood and belonging, a Pan-European cultural identity, and the fate of the individual in the face of collective history. As formative texts for Modernist writers like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf, Pater's Imaginary Portraits had an impact which reached far beyond the nineteenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192848313

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9780192848314

Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated)

By: Walter Pater

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Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated)

By: Walter Pater

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1786560933

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9781786560933

Selected Essays

By: Walter Pater

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Selected Essays

By: 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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Carcanet Press Ltd

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1784106275

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9781784106270

The Renaissance

By: Walter Horatio Peter

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The Renaissance

By: Walter Horatio Peter

The subjects of the following studies are taken from the history of the Renaissance, and touch what I think the chief points in that complex, many-sided movement.

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1508826676

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Imaginary Portraits (Esprios Classics)

Imaginary Portraits (Esprios Classics)

The Renaissance

The Renaissance

Essays from 'The Guardian' (Esprios Classics)

Essays from 'The Guardian' (Esprios Classics)

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Essays from 'The Guardian'

Essays from 'The Guardian'

Three Imaginary Portraits (Noumena Classics)

Three Imaginary Portraits (Noumena Classics)

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX: Correspondence

The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IX: Correspondence

Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated)

Selected Essays

Selected Essays

The Renaissance

The Renaissance

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