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- catalog abstract "A twentieth-century intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over thought and, in doing so, ignited a hard, gem-like flame. "Say not what it is but what it makes you see - or feel" is not something Pater ever said, but it will suffice as an encapsulation of an attitude that moved the authority of a work of art from the object to the subject, subsequently outraging the defenders of perceived truth of his time and making Pater himself a figure of controversy and even ridicule. Substituting sensationalism for sensation and reading Pater's claim for hedonism, or pleasures the soul might savor, as outright decadence, Pater's detractors far outnumbered and outranked his followers (including his fellow Oxonian and most notorious devotee, Oscar Wilde). But ever since Pater has proved, at least in the high arts, the decisive victor of the revolution he set into motion.".
- catalog contributor b7906111.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "A twentieth-century intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over thought and, in doing so, ignited a hard, gem-like flame. "Say not what it is but what it makes you see - or feel" is not something Pater ever said, but it will suffice as an encapsulation of an attitude that moved the authority of a work of art from the object to the subject, subsequently outraging the defenders of perceived truth of his time and making Pater himself a figure of controversy and even ridicule.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-349) and index.".
- catalog description "Preliminaries -- The funeral and Henry James -- From Stepney to Oxford -- Hopkins, Oscar Browning, Simeon Solomon, Symonds -- Scandal -- John Wordsworth, W.M. Hardinge, W.H. Mallock -- Arthur Symons, George Moore, Lionel Johnson, Wilde -- Last years: Mrs. Humphry Ward -- The sisters -- "Diaphaneite" -- Studies in the history of the Renaissance -- "Leonardo da Vinci" -- "Botticelli" -- "Winckelmann" -- Greek studies -- "The child in the house" -- Marius the Epicurean -- Imaginary portraits -- Gaston de Latour -- Appreciations -- "Style" -- "Shakespeare" -- "Wordsworth" -- "Postscript" -- Plato and Platonism -- "Amiens" and "Vezelay".".
- catalog description "Substituting sensationalism for sensation and reading Pater's claim for hedonism, or pleasures the soul might savor, as outright decadence, Pater's detractors far outnumbered and outranked his followers (including his fellow Oxonian and most notorious devotee, Oscar Wilde). But ever since Pater has proved, at least in the high arts, the decisive victor of the revolution he set into motion.".
- catalog extent "viii, 364 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Walter Pater.".
- catalog identifier "0679437533 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Walter Pater.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Walter Pater.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "824/.8 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Critics Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR5136 .D66 1995".
- catalog subject "Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preliminaries -- The funeral and Henry James -- From Stepney to Oxford -- Hopkins, Oscar Browning, Simeon Solomon, Symonds -- Scandal -- John Wordsworth, W.M. Hardinge, W.H. Mallock -- Arthur Symons, George Moore, Lionel Johnson, Wilde -- Last years: Mrs. Humphry Ward -- The sisters -- "Diaphaneite" -- Studies in the history of the Renaissance -- "Leonardo da Vinci" -- "Botticelli" -- "Winckelmann" -- Greek studies -- "The child in the house" -- Marius the Epicurean -- Imaginary portraits -- Gaston de Latour -- Appreciations -- "Style" -- "Shakespeare" -- "Wordsworth" -- "Postscript" -- Plato and Platonism -- "Amiens" and "Vezelay".".
- catalog title "Walter Pater : lover of strange souls / Denis Donoghue.".
- catalog type "text".