Selected Essays

by Walter Pater

Alex Wong (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781784106263
  • Publish Date 27 September 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Imprint Carcanet Classics
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 448
  • Language English