Harold Bloom's selection of Pater's writings brings together in one volume the most important sections and passages from "The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, Plato and Platonism, Greek Studies," and "Sketches and Reviews," as well as "The Child in the House." Pater, the chief aesthe[...]

Studies in the History of the Renaissance is a highly influential defence of aestheticism. Pater redefined the practice of criticism through his readings of some of the paintings, sculptures, and poems of the Renaissance, and shocked contemporaries for sponsoring a hedonistic ethic with his infamou[...]

"The Renaissance" is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater's text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variati[...]

Explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this title presents the discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical disco[...]