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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater

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'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'

The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would not call me a hedonist, it gives such a wrong impression to those who do not know Greek.'.

The book had begun as a series of idiosyncratic, impressionistic critical essays on those artists that embodied for him the spirit of the Renaissance; by collecting them and adding his infamous Conclusion, Pater gained a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. But The Renaissance survives as one of the most innovative pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the nineteenth century.

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Pages:: pages

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Edition:: Oxford World’s Classics

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 019283553X

ISBN13:: 9780192835536

kindle Asin:: B00B60KZ12

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Walter Pater

3.93/5 (1287 ratings)

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'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.'

The Renaissance (1873) at once became the touchstone for the decadent imagination for a generation of Oxford undergraduates. Pater was shocked at the reaction his book inspired: 'I wish they would not call me a hedonist, it gives such a wrong impression to those who do not know Greek.'.

The book had begun as a series of idiosyncratic, impressionistic critical essays on those artists that embodied for him the spirit of the Renaissance; by collecting them and adding his infamous Conclusion, Pater gained a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. But The Renaissance survives as one of the most innovative pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the nineteenth century.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Edition:: Oxford World’s Classics

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 019283553X

ISBN13:: 9780192835536

kindle Asin:: B00B60KZ12

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