Name: Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
Author: Walter Pater
ISBN: 978-1298383518

Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays

By Walter Pater 3 Feb, 2020

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The volume of Greek Studies, issued early in the present year, dealt with Mr. Pater's contributions to the study of Greek art, mythology, and poetry. The present volume has no such unifying principle. Some of the papers would naturally find their place alongside of those collected in Imaginary Portraits, or in Appreciations, or in the Studies in the Renaissance. And there is no doubt, in the case of several of them, that Mr. Pater, if he had lived, would have subjected them to careful revision before allowing them to reappear in a permanent form. The task, which he left unexecuted, cannot now be taken up by any other hand. But it is hoped that students of his writings will be glad to possess, in a collected shape, what has hitherto only been accessible in the scattered volumes of magazines. It is with some hesitation that the paper on Diaphaneitè, the last in this volume, has been added, as the only specimen known to be preserved of those early essays of Mr. Pater's, by which his literary gifts were first made known to the small circle of his Oxford friends. Less

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