| Selected Essays Contributor(s): Pater, Walter Horatio (Author), Wong, Alex (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1784106267 ISBN-13: 9781784106263 Publisher: Carcanet Classics OUR PRICE: $24.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Essays - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 824.8 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (1.15 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |