Publisher's Synopsis
Appreciations with an Essay on Style is a collection of critical essays by Walter Pater, a 19th-century British writer and critic. The book contains a series of essays that explore the works of various artists and writers, including Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth. Pater's style is characterized by his emphasis on the aesthetic experience, and his essays are known for their poetic and impressionistic language. In addition to the essays, the book also includes an essay on style, in which Pater reflects on the importance of style in literature and art. Overall, Appreciations with an Essay on Style is a significant work in the history of literary criticism, and it continues to be studied and appreciated by scholars and readers today.1903. Pater was an essayist, critic, and Oxford don. Renowned for his study of aesthetic poetry and his essays on the history of the Renaissance, he was a central figure in the Aesthetic movement that swept England at the end of the nineteenth century. Through his essay, Style, his respect for the mot juste, and his belief that good literature will be organically unified, made him a somewhat oblique source for New Criticism-the tradition of close reading. Contents: Style; Wordsworth; Coleridge; Charles Lamb; Sir Thomas Browne; Love's Labours Lost; Measure for Measure; Shakespeare's English Kings; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Feuillet's La Morte; and Postscript. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
