Walter Pater : humanist /

Crinkley, Richmond, 1940-1989,

Walter Pater : humanist / Richmond Crinkley. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1970. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

This provocative study suggests that Pater, usually thought of as a florid prose stylist and second-rate adjunct to the Esthetic Movement, is, in reality, an articulate prophet of the twentieth century. Pater's work, the book indicates, shows a consistent concern with the transmission of humanism from one generation to the next through the medium of art. The link in that transmission is the human image in a milieu --



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Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 --Criticism and interpretation.


Humanism in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR5137 / .W358 1970