"Appreciations, with an Essay on Style" by Walter Pater is a compilation of critical essays from the late 1800s that investigates literary style, focusing on the relationship between prose and poetry, and offers evaluations of poets and writers like Wordsworth and Coleridge. The book explores the difficulties of truly understanding literature, highlighting the artistry found in different types of writing. The starting section lays down Pater's core beliefs about art, stressing the importance of telling apart different art forms to grasp their value. Pater argues against strict classifications of writing styles, promoting broader recognition of imagination in both prose and poetry. According to him, genuine art springs from a writer's honest expression of their personal feelings and view of the world, which he uses as a foundation for analysing specific literary figures, showing how the details of language and style mirror deeper truths and feelings.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
By Walter Pater
Venture into a collection of essays that challenges the rules of literary style and celebrates the beauty found in both prose and poetry through the eyes of great writers and thinkers.
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About the AuthorWalter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism.
Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism.
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