Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston De Latour (Aesthetics Today)
Editorial Reviews
Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University
"The pleasures of reading Pater are intense, to me, but the importance of Pater transcends those pleasures, and finally is quite out of proportion to Pater's literary achievement, fairly large as that was. . . .'Imaginary Portraits,' in Pater's sense, are an almost indescribable genre. It may be best to call them what Yeats called his Paterian stories, "Mythologies," or "Romantic Mythologies." Or, more commonly, they could be called simply "reveries". . . .What is most meaningful to Pater are those voices coming from low walls, green mounds, tombstones."
Book Description
Out of print for decades, the enchanting classics in this new edition of Walter Pater's Imaginary Portraits will be welcomed by teachers and students of literature, art history, and aesthetics. First published in 1887, these "imaginary portraits" are not biographies, but fictionalized accounts of historic figures, written by this esteemed nineteenth-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature. Each shares a common search for a new aesthetic, a pursuit of beauty that anticipated the modern movement in prose and poetry and helped to define aesthetics in the twentieth century. Pater's earnest philosophy of beauty inspired many of the earliest voices of modernism, from his student Oscar Wilde to James Joyce, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens. This treasured edition includes such celebrated works as The Child in the House, out of print since 1904, and the unfinished novel, Gaston de Latour.
Co-published with the School of Visual Arts as part of the Aesthetics Today series.
Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston De Latour (Aesthetics Today)
Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston De Latour (Aesthetics Today),Walter Pater,Watson-Guptill Publications,1880559773,Art,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,Pater, Walter, 1839-1894,Short Stories (single author),19th century fiction,English
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