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1	The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist "The Renaissance" is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variations in other editions, from the early magazine ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Marius the Epicurean more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist An imaginary historical portrait in which Marius is offered as a kind of self-portrait of Pater transferred to the Rome of Marcus Aurelius. Marius speculates on various views of art and life. The love of art for art's sake is advocated, as is the moral obligation to lead a good and ordered life. see all copies from $2.10! new only from $16.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Renaissance more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Introduction by Lawrence Evans. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the 'holy writ of beauty'. Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Imaginary Portraits more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist A collection of fictionalized accounts of historic figures, written by a 19th-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature. "The Child in the House", out of print since 1904, appears along with "Gaston de Latour", an unfinished novel. The common thread is the search for a new aesthetic. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Pater's novel was painstakingly composed over the course of six years in the 1880s to stand as both the most complete exposition of his philosophy and as a concrete example of his aesthetic ideals. The narrative follows the fictional character, Marius, from boyhood through to his education and young manhood as he searches for the governing ... see all copies from $2.96! new only from $17.96! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Appreciations with an Essay on Style more books like this by Walter Horatio Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $2.47! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Gaston de LaTour-An Unfinished Romance more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Those who were curious to trace the symmetries of chance or destiny felt now quite secure in observing that, of nine French kings of the name, every third Charles had been a madman. Over the exotic, nervous creature who had inherited so many delicacies of organisation, the coarse rage or rabies of the wolf, part, doubtless, of an inheritance older ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $9.13! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Greek Studies a Series of Essays more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $8.90! new only from $10.77! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Essays from The Guardian more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $8.90! new only from $8.90! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES - 1917 - 1895 - PREFACE THE volume of Greek Studies, issued early in the present year, dealt with Mr. Paters contributions to the study of Greek art, mythology, and poetry. The present volume has no such unifying principle. Some of the papers would naturally find their place alongside of those collected in Imaginary Portraits ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $10.68! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Contents Include: Plato and the Doctrine of Motion - Plato and the Doctrine of Rest - Plato and the Doctrine of Number - Plato and Socrates - Plato and the Sophists - The Genius of Plato - The Doctrine of Plato - The Theory of Ideas - Dialectic - Lacedaemon - The Republic - Plato's Aesthetics see all copies from $9.99! new only from $20.73! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Plato and Platonism more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Pater was destined to join the clergy after meeting John Keble in 1855. After reading Ruskin's "Modern Painters" his interest in the aesthetic was kindled and he eventually tutored Oscar Wilde. His book on Plato and Plato's philosophy was published in 1893 a year before he died. "By Platonism," the author clarifies, "is meant not Neo ... see all copies from $2.96! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The Works of Walter Pater by Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $349.95!
14 view cover	Miscellaneous Studies more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Hence the splendour, the space, the novelty, of the great French cathedrals in the first Pointed style, monuments for the most part of the artistic genius of laymen, significant pre-eminently of that Queen of Gothic churches at Amiens. In most cases those early Pointed churches are entangled, here or there, by the constructions of the old round ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $16.09! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Gaston de LaTour more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. After graduating from Oxford he became acutely interested in literature, beginning to write articles and criticisms. The first of these to be printed was a brief essay upon Coleridge, contributed in 1866 to the Westminster Review. A few months later (January, ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $10.14! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Greek Studies more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist This book will be shipped within one month of being ordered. see all copies from $8.50! new only from $11.99! \| SVS
17	Appreciations more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $3.19! new only from $3.84! \| first editions
18	Selected Writings of Walter Pater more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Child in the House (1909) by Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $13.15! \| SVS
20 view cover	Walter Pater: Selected Works by Walter Pater, Richard Aldington (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! first editions
21	Sketches & Reviews more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $136.58! \| first editions
22 view cover	Uncollected Essays more books like this by Walter Pater add to wishlist see all copies from $17.51! new only from $17.51! \| first editions
23	Walter Pater: Three Major Texts more books like this by Walter Pater, William E Buckler (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.72! first editions
24 view cover	Essays on Lit. & Art Pater, Walter more books like this by Walter Pater, Jennifer Uglow (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.70!
25	Essays on literature and art more books like this by Walter Pater, Jennifer Uglow add to wishlist see all copies from $4.99!

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