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Essays From

Name: Essays From
Author: Walter Pater
ISBN: 9781411456464

by Walter Pater

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Overview

This 1896 book was assembled for a private printing when it was discovered that the author, a distinguished critic and novelist, had written nine anonymous pieces for the English newspaper. Here are “English Literature,” “Browning,” “Wordsworth,” “Amiel’s ‘Journal Intime,’” “‘Robert Elsmere,’” “‘Their Majesties’ Servants,’” “Ferdinand Fabre,” and two more.

About the Author, Walter Pater

Walter Pater (1839-1894) was a British critic and essayist who championed the idea of "art for art's sake," which was later used by such figures as Oscar Wilde and other devotees of Aestheticism. His essays on art and literature were printed in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), one of his most famous works.