Walter Pater is increasingly being referred to by modern critics as an important precursor of modernist aesthetic theory. His study, The Renaissance , was also very influential in its own day, particularly on the work of Oscar Wilde who described it as 'my golden book...the very flower of decadence'.
- ISBN10 019281737X
- ISBN13 9780192817372
- Publish Date 1 November 1986 (first published August 1967)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Format Paperback
- Pages 206
- Language English