ISBN: 0231054815 9780231054812

Category: Education / General

Page count: 266

<p>Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from <i>The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies</i>, and <i>Sketches and Reviews</i>, 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.</p>