Essays from the "Guardian" (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Walter Pater

Overview

This 1896 book was assembled for a private printing when it was discovered that the author, a distinguished critic and novelist, had written nine anonymous pieces for the English newspaper. Here are “English Literature,” “Browning,” “Wordsworth,” “Amiel’s ‘Journal Intime,’” “‘Robert Elsmere,’” “‘Their Majesties’ Servants,’” “Ferdinand Fabre,” and two more.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411456464
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	08/30/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	186
File size:	166 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Walter Pater (1839-1894) was a British critic and essayist who championed the idea of "art for art's sake," which was later used by such figures as Oscar Wilde and other devotees of Aestheticism.  His essays on art and literature were printed in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), one of his most famous works.