| Essays from the Guardian Contributor(s): Pater, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108034314 ISBN-13: 9781108034319 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 824 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.47 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walter Pater (1839-94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. He brought his extensive knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. Published alongside Pater's collected works of 1900-1, this collection reprints his essays from The Guardian, composed in the late 1880s. Pater turns to literary topics with these reviews of new editions of Wordsworth and anthologies of poetry, academic studies on Browning and on the English theatre, Mrs Humphrey Ward's novel Robert Elsmere and her translation of the philosopher Henri-Fr d ric Amiel's private diary, as well as works by Edmund Gosse, Ferdinand Fabre and Augustin Filon. |