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Elizabeth Prettejohn: Walter Pater, 6 February 2020
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. III: Imaginary Portraits
edited by Lene Østermark-Johansen.
Oxford, 359 pp., £115, January 2019,978 0 19 882343 8 Show More
edited by Lene Østermark-Johansen.
Oxford, 359 pp., £115, January 2019,
The Collected Works of Walter Pater, Vol. IV: Gaston de Latour
edited by Gerald Monsman.
Oxford, 399 pp., £115, January 2019,978 0 19 881616 4 Show More
edited by Gerald Monsman.
Oxford, 399 pp., £115, January 2019,
“... Pascal, Rossetti and Mérimée, and includes some distinctly obscure pieces, such as an essay on Thomas Browne which is a small-scale masterpiece.The conventional image of Pater as a narrow aesthete or fastidious connoisseur is contradicted by these volumes. What emerges instead is a man of formidable learning and intellectual scope, a polyglot in modern as ... ”