Miscellaneous Studies: A Series Of Essays

by Walter Pater

This book is brand new and sealed, never read or used in any way, PERFECT!!

Genres: Essays

233 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1895

About the author

People know British writer Walter Horatio Pater for his volumes of aesthetic criticism, including Appreciations (1889).

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Reviews

[C. B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is difficult to review. Compiled shortly after Pater’s death, Miscellaneous Studies has no central theme or genre. It merely brings together the essays which the editor, Charles Shadwell, could not categorise easily; the tricky ones which he felt that Pater would have revised had he wanted them to appear ‘in a more permanent form’ in new editions of The Renaissance or Imaginary Portraits. The first six are art historical essays, while the next three are ‘imaginary portraits’. These latter ones are the highlights of the book, and some of the greatest pieces Pater ever wrote.

‘Apollo in Picardy’ is a chillingly dark and unnerving examination of a roughly-hewn pagan spirit still alive in the French countryside, while ‘The Child in the House’ and ‘Emerald Uthwart’ are beautiful reflections on childhood and youth, with many details clearly drawn from Pater’s own life. To add Pater’s early essay ‘Diaphanéité’ to the end of the book is a rather moving choice for Shadwell to have made. The essay, which concerns sensitive souls of a ‘clear crystal nature’, was inspired by Shadwell. Taken in this order, then, the final three pieces are a kind of chronology of Pater’s life, with ‘Diaphanéité’ redressing the sad death of Emerald Uthwart — a reflection of Pater in his youth — at the tender age of 27. By placing this essay at the end, Shadwell is highlighting Pater's life and the joy which Pater gave to him and so many others.

[marie :) · Rating 2 out of 5]

ce p*tain de ** a trop de choses à dire je vous jure!!!! on a compris que t'étais un groomer et que tu les préfères jeunes.