Selected Writings of Walter Pater / Edition 1

by Harold Bloom

Overview

Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies, and Sketches and Reviews, as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthetician and literary critic of Victorian England, brought his powerful imagination to bear on a wide range of subjects: from the drama of Euripides to the painters of the Renaissance, from the Romantic poets to the pre-Raphaelites, from Plato to Oscar Wilde. In the twentieth century, Pater's theories of art and literature exerted a strong inluence on the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, and Stevens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231054812
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/22/1982
Series:	Morningside Book Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	266
Sales rank:	651,481
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Harold Bloom is a distinguised literary critic and University Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.

Hometown:

New York, New York and New Haven, Connecticut

Date of Birth:

July 11, 1930

Date of Death:

October 14, 2019

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Cornell University, 1951; Ph.D., Yale University, 1955

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Child in the House
Chronology from The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
Bibliography from Imaginary Portraits
Preface from Appreciations
Sandro Botticelli from Plato and Platonism
Leonardo Da Vinci from Greek Studies
The School of Giorgione (excerpt)
from Sketches and Reviews
Conclusion
Sebastian Van Storck
Denys l'Auxerrois
Style
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Charles Lamb
Measure for Measure
Aesthetic Poetry
Date Gabriel Rossetti
Postscript (Romanticism)
The Genius of Plato
Hippolytus Veiled: A Study from Euripides
A Novel by Mr. Oscar Wilde