Appreciations. With an Essay on Style de Pater, Walter - 1980

MacMillan Company. Good. 1915. Hardcover. Spine faded, unmarked with solid binding .

Northwestern University Press, 1987. Paperback. Wrappers are slightly edge worn and scuffed. Some curling at edges and corners. Else good. 261 pages.

MP3 Audio CD. 14.99 by Pater, Walter, 1839-1894

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MacMillan Company, 1915. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. London, 1915; blue cloth covered boards; mild shelf wear; no jacket; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; second end papers toned; pages un-open; Interior is clean and unmarked; 261 pages.

Later "Library" edition of book first published in 1889. Cover has has some serious discoloration at bottom front and back covers and noticeable shelf wear at top of spine, and shadowing on the inside of the covers and adjacent fly-leaf pages; otherwise the good quality deckled edged pages are in excellent condition. Beginning at about page 121 pages have not been separated at the top. There are no marks, tears, bookplates, etc.

IDB Productions, 2016-01-01. MP3 CD. New. This item is a brand new factory sealed MP3 disc supplied in a DVD case

MP3 Audio CD. First published in 1889, Appreciations, with an Essay on Style is a collection of previously published works by one of the most influential essayists, literary critiques and stylists of the 19th century, Walter Pater.The volume includes 16 essays, all of them appraisals of the authors most appreciated by Pater. In the book, Pater expresses his respect towards Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Shakespeare as well as Feuillet and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and he also expresses his views about the future of literature. He dedicates a separate essay to his method used when writing prose and to his artistic creed. As one of the most important representatives of the aesthetic movement that extended the definition of beauty to become the governing principal of life, in Appreciations Pater evaluates the works of these authors from a unique perspective, promoting a systematic interpretation of literature based on ideals of beauty.Appreciations is one of the major works by Pater published during… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style STYLE Since all progress of mind consists for the most part in differentiation, in the resolution of an obscure and complex object into its component aspects, it is surely the stupidest of losses to confuse things which right reason has put asunder, to lose the sense of achieved distinctions, the distinction between poetry and prose, for instance, or, to speak more exactly, between the laws and characteristic excellences of verse and prose composition. On the other hand, those who have dwelt most emphatically on the distinction between prose and verse, prose and poetry, may sometimes have been tempted to limit the proper functions of prose too narrowly; and this again is at least false economy, as being, in effect, the renunciation of a certain means or faculty, in a world where after all we must needs make the most of things. Critical efforts to limit art a priori, by anticipations regarding the natural incapacity of the material with which this… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. First published in 1889, Appreciations, with an Essay on Style is a collection of previously published works by one of the most influential essayists, literary critiques and stylists of the 19th century, Walter Pater.The volume includes 16 essays, all of them appraisals of the authors most appreciated by Pater. In the book, Pater expresses his respect towards Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Shakespeare as well as Feuillet and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and he also expresses his views about the future of literature. He dedicates a separate essay to his method used when writing prose and to his artistic creed. As one of the most important representatives of the aesthetic movement that extended the definition of beauty to become the governing principal of life, in Appreciations Pater evaluates the works of these authors from a unique perspective, promoting a systematic interpretation of literature based on ideals of beauty.Appreciations is one of the major works by Pater published during… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style STYLE Since all progress of mind consists for the most part in differentiation, in the resolution of an obscure and complex object into its component aspects, it is surely the stupidest of losses to confuse things which right reason has put asunder, to lose the sense of achieved distinctions, the distinction between poetry and prose, for instance, or, to speak more exactly, between the laws and characteristic excellences of verse and prose composition. On the other hand, those who have dwelt most emphatically on the distinction between prose and verse, prose and poetry, may sometimes have been tempted to limit the proper functions of prose too narrowly; and this again is at least false economy, as being, in effect, the renunciation of a certain means or faculty, in a world where after all we must needs make the most of things. Critical efforts to limit art a priori, by anticipations regarding the natural incapacity of the material with which this… Leer más