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.