bookmate game
Free
Walter Pater

Aesthetic Poetry

25 printed pages

Other versions

Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Impressions

  • b6206411304shared an impression2 years ago
    👍Worth reading

Quotes

  • b0925065893has quoted3 years ago
    the forms of things are transfigured. Of that transfigured world this new poetry takes possession, and sublimates beyond it another still fainter and more spectral, which is l
  • b6206411304has quoted2 years ago
    Complex and subtle interests, which the mind spins for itself may occupy art and poetry or our own spirits for a time; but sooner or later they come back with a sharp rebound to the simple elementary passions
  • b6206411304has quoted2 years ago
    Here there is no delirium or illusion, no experiences of mere soul while the body and the bodily senses sleep, or wake with convulsed intensity at the prompting of imaginative love; but rather the great primary passions under broad daylight as of the pagan Veronese.

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)