Sketches and Reviews
No CoverWalter Pater's late literary essays and reviews on poetry, fiction, theology, and French literature, including suppressed aesthetic writings.
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Walter Pater's late literary essays and reviews on poetry, fiction, theology, and French literature, including suppressed aesthetic writings.
THE last of Walter Pater's fugitive writings-if that adjective may be applied to even the least of these bits of literary journalism-is given us in "Sketches and Reviews". Supplementing the "Essays from the Guardian", the present collection will be chiefly valued for the essay on "Aesthetic Poetry" which Pater suppressed in the second edition of "Appreciations," feeling that its sensuous warmth gave color to the criticisms aimed at the ethics of his New Cyrenaicism. With this penetrating study o...
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