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The essays in "Imaginary Portraits" are fictionalized biographical sketches that blend elements of fact and fiction. Pater uses these essays as a platform to explore various themes related to art, culture, and human nature. Some of the notable essays in the collection include:"A Prince of Court Painters" - This essay examines the life and art of the Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci."Duke Carl of Rosenmold" - Pater creates a fictional duke to discuss themes of ambition, power, ...

Set in the second century A.D. against the backdrop of a Roman Empire on the verge of decline, "Marius the Epicurean" is the story of the philosophical and spiritual development of Marius, a young Italian serving as amanuensis to the great emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marius explores the various systems of philosophy in search of an elusive vision of love, moving from Epicureanism to Cyrenaicism and finally Stoicism before finally finding what he had sought in the terrible beauty of Christian ...

This fantastic classic text is Pater's graceful collection of essays discussing the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. The book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers. This version has been specially formatted for today's e-read...

Four invented lives, each a study in what a mind does with beauty: a Watteau seen through a girl's diary, a Dutch philosopher, a German prince, a young Frenchman. Pater's conclusion to The Renaissance — that we should burn with a hard, gemlike flame — became the motto of the aesthetes and frightened him so much he withdrew it; these 1887 pieces are that argument made into people.

A thoughtful young Roman under Marcus Aurelius moves through the philosophies on offer — Epicurean, Stoic, Christian — testing each against the fact that he will die. Pater's conclusion to The Renaissance, urging readers to burn with a hard gemlike flame, had been taken up by Wilde's generation as a licence; he wrote this long, slow novel to explain that he had meant something more serious.

Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial in his times.'Walter Pater: Complete Writings' contains:THE RENAISSANCEMARIUS THE EPICUREAN Vol.IMARIUS THE EPICUREAN Vol.IIIMAGINARY PORTRAITSAPPRECIATIONSPLATO AND PLATONISMGREEK ST...

Set in the second century AD, "Marius the Epicurean" follows the life of its eponymous protagonist, Marius. The story traces Marius' journey from his early years as a young Roman boy through his education, encounters with various philosophical and religious doctrines, and his search for meaning and fulfillment in life.The novel explores themes such as aesthetics, the pursuit of beauty, and the tension between hedonism and asceticism. Marius is depicted as a sensitive and introspective char...

“THE RELIGION OF NUMA” As, in the triumph of Christianity, the old religion lingered latest in the country, and died out at last as but paganism—the religion of the villagers, before the advance of the Christian Church; so, in an earlier century, it was in places remote from town-life that the older and purer forms of paganism itself had survived the longest. While, in Rome, new religions had arisen with bewildering complexity around the dying old one, the earlier and simpler patriarchal r...

Plato Complete Works – World’s Best CollectionThis is the world’s best Plato collection, including the most complete set of Plato’s works available plus many free bonus materials.PlatoPlato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece, a student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Plato, with his teacher Socrates, and student, Ari...

Famed for his singular prose style as much as for his controversial aestheticist principles, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was one of the great essayists in a century of great essayistic writing. His first book, *Studies in the History of the Renaissance—*one of the most original and influential texts of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement—was described by Arthur Symons as "the most beautiful book of prose in our literature," and his later work moved Vernon Lee to call him "the natural exponent o...

The Renaissance (1873)Marius the Epicurean Vol. I (1885)Marius the Epicurean Vol. II (1885)Imaginary Portraits (1887)Appreciations (1889)Plato and Platonism (1893)Greek Studies (1895)Miscellaneous Studies (1895)Gaston de Latour (1896)Essays from ‘The Guardian’ (1896)Uncollected Essays