The complete online text of Aesthetic Poetry by Walter Pater.

The English author Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was the most influential figure in the Esthetic movement of the late 19th century. His writings reveal a mind of sensibility and discrimination, embodying its judgments in carefully wrought prose. By th...

Walter Pater is important to English literary history because he combines a commitment to the romantic theory that art is essentially an expression of personality with a sympathetic response to the scientific and historical studies of the Victorian perio...

Walter Pater is important to English literary history because he combines a commitment to the romantic theory that art is essentially an expression of personality with a sympathetic response to the scientific and historical studies of the Victorian perio...

Para Elio Ruiz y Eloy Machado Nancy Morejon is by now the most celebrated poet among the generation of writers who emerged after the Castro government acquired power in 1959. As a woman, a black, and a poet Morejon has reached a level...

Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics. By Charles Martindale. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. xi+265 pp. 50.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-o-19-924040-1. One of the most overlooked aspects of Walter Pater's aestheticism is its resistance...