Walter Pater

Arthur Christopher Benson

Casa editrice: Good Press

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Arthur Christopher Benson's Walter Pater is a lucid and finely judged critical study of one of late Victorian England's most influential men of letters. Benson examines Pater not merely as the author of The Renaissance and Marius the Epicurean, but as a stylist, aesthete, and moral intelligence whose prose helped shape the sensibility of the fin de siècle. The book combines literary criticism, biography, and cultural commentary, attending to Pater's subtle sentences, reflective temperament, and complex relation to art, ethics, and religion. Written in an elegant, measured style, it belongs to the tradition of early twentieth-century literary portraiture, where interpretation and character study are inseparable. Benson was himself exceptionally well placed to write such a work. A distinguished essayist, biographer, and man of letters, educated at Eton and Cambridge, he moved within the intellectual world that succeeded Pater's own. His deep familiarity with academic life, English prose style, and the moral seriousness of Victorian and Edwardian culture gave him unusual sympathy for Pater's reticent personality and refined critical method. Benson's own meditative prose and interest in the inner life clearly inform the book's tone and insight. This volume is highly recommended to readers interested in Victorian criticism, aestheticism, and the history of English literary thought. It offers both an accessible introduction to Pater and a discerning appraisal of his lasting significance.

Disponibile da: 29/06/2026.

Lunghezza di stampa: 177 pagine.

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