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Selected Essays
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 …
Renaissance (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
These lambent essays, published in 1873, focus on Renaissance masters like Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. The book's brief conclusory essay was to prove far more …
Miscellaneous Studies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This posthumous 1895 collection brings together, from many different journals and magazines, Paters influential and wide-ranging writings. The contents include Prosper Mrime, …
Renaissance DUN
Paters graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da …
Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated)
Walter Pater, the English critic, essayist and humanist is noted for the advocacy of "e;art for art's sake"e;, which became a cardinal doctrine of Aestheticism. Pater's …
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake'In Studies in the History of the …
Renaissance
The era now referred to as the Renaissance represented an unparalleled blossoming of art and culture. Take a tour of the period through the imagination of Walter Pater, one of …
Essays from the "e;Guardian"e; (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1896 book was assembled for a private printing when it was discovered that the author, a distinguished critic and novelist, had written nine anonymous pieces for the English …
Grundlagen der Physikalischen Chemie
“A popular textbook containing the key concepts of physical chemistry, which do not become obsolete so quickly.” …
Marius the Epicurean (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This philosophical novel, published in 1885, uses the backdrop of Antonine Rome to elaborate Pater's ideas about Aestheticism. His hero, Marius, is a young Italian employed as …
Plato and Platonism
"e;By Platonism,"e; the author clarifies, "e;is meant not Neo-Platonism of any kind, but the leading principles of Plato's doctrine, which I have tried to see in close …
Appreciations
Essays on Style, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Sir Thomas Brown, Love's Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's English Kings, Dante Rossetti, and Feuillet's La Morte. …