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By: Walter Pater (1839-1896)

Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater Marius the Epicurean

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal of its own. The principles of what would be known as the Aesthetic movement were partly traceable to this book; and its impact was particularly felt on one of the movement’s leading proponents, Oscar Wilde, a former student of Pater at Oxford.

Book cover Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well received by public and critic since its first edition, in 1889. The volume includes an appraisal of the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first printed in 1883, a few months after Rossetti's death; an essay on Thomas Browne, whose Baroque style Pater admired; and a discussion of Measure for Measure, one of Pater's most often reprinted pieces. The second edition, published in 1890, had a few modifications, and is the basis for all other editions of the book.

Book cover The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
Book cover The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry
Book cover Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
Book cover Plato and Platonism
Book cover Aesthetic Poetry
Book cover Imaginary Portraits
Book cover Essays from 'The Guardian'
Book cover Giordano Bruno
Book cover Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
Book cover Imaginary Portraits
Book cover Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance

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