The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Arts & Photography

Pater, Walter

History & Criticism

Meridian by World

An imaginary historical portrait in which Marius is offered as a kind of self-portrait of Pater transferred to the Rome of Marcus Aurelius. Marius speculates on various views of art and life. The love of art for art's sake is advocated, as is the moral obligation to lead a good and ordered life.

Marius the Epicurean (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin Classics

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...like the waves of the sea--the cool circle of shadow, in which the wonderful toilets of the beau monde told so effectively around the blazing arena, recovered, at intervals, during the many hours' show with clean sand for absorbing certain great red patches there, by troops of white-shirted boys, for whom the goodnatured audience provided a scramble of nuts and small coin, flung to them over a trellis-work of amber and silver gilt, the precious gift of Nero; while a rain of flowers and perfume fell over themselves, as they paused, between the parts of their long feast upon animal suffering. During his sojourn at Ephesus, Lucius Verus had readily become a patron, or proUgi, of the great goddess of Ephesus, the goddess of hunters; and the show, celebrated by way of a compliment to him to-day, was to present some incidents of her story, in which she figures almost as the genius of madness, in animals, or in the humanity which comes in contact with them. The spectacle would have an element of old Greek revival in it, welcome to the taste of a learned and Hellenising society; and, as Lucius Verus was in some sense a lover of animals, was to be a show of animals, mainly. There would be real wild and domestic creatures, all of rare species; and a real slaughter. On so happy an occasion, the elder emperor might even concede a point, and a living criminal fall into the jaws of the wild beasts. And the entire spectacle was, certainly, to end in the destruction, by one mighty shower of arrows, of a hundred lions, "nobly" provided by Aurelius himself for the amusement of his people--tam magnanimus fuit! The arena, disposed and decked for the first scene, looked delightfully fresh, reinforcing on the spirits of the audience the actual freshness of the...

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Marius the Epicurean was one of the most celebrated novels of the 19th century. Set in Rome in the second century A.D., it traces the "sensations" of its young hero Marius as he encounters pagan religion, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and finally Christianity. This is the frst edition of Marius the Epicurean since 1934.

Marius the Epicurean (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Oxford University Press

Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. The book strongly influenced art students and aesthetes of the day and is still valuable for the insights it offers and the beauty of the writing.

The Renaissance (The ^AWorld's Classics)

British & Irish

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)

Letters of Walter Pater

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. Pater's infamous "Conclusion," which forever linked him with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces the text of the first edition of 1873. Matthew Beaumont's Introduction describes the cultural context that gave rise to the book, the reasons for its notoriety, Pater's philosophical outlook, and the arguments in his book. It explores Pater's work as an attempt to preserve the unique aesthetic of a work of art in the face of encroaching mass culture. The book also includes the later chapter on Giorgione as an Appendix, comprehensive notes that identify the many literary and artistic references, and a useful glossary of names. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Studies in the History of the Renaissance (Oxford World's Classics)

Beaumont, Matthew

History

Selected writings of Walter Pater

Columbia University Press

The Works of Walter Pater: Plato and Platonism

Franklin Classics

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