This volume collects the complete writings of Walter Pater: 75 essays and 1½ novels.
Contents:
THE RENAISSANCE (1873)
Preface, Two Early French Stories, Pico della Mirandola, Sandro Botticelli,
Luca della Robbia, The Poetry of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci,
The School of Giorgione, Joachim du Bellay, Winckelmann, Conclusion
MARIUS THE EPICUREAN VOL. I+II (1885)
IMAGINARY PORTRAITS (1887)
A Prince of Court Painters, Denys L’Auxerrois, Sebastian van Storck,
Duke Carl of Rosenmold
APPRECIATIONS (1889)
Style, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Browne,
“Love’s Labours Lost,” “Measure for Measure,” Shakespeare’s English Kings,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Feuillet’s “La Morte,” Postscript
PLATO AND PLATONISM (1893)
Plato and the Doctrine of Motion, Plato and the Doctrine of Rest,
Plato and the Doctrine of Number, Plato and Socrates, Plato and the Sophists,
The Genius of Plato, The Doctrine of Plato, Lacedaemon, The Republic, Plato’s Æsthetics
GREEK STUDIES (1895)
Preface, A Study of Dionysus, The Bacchanals of Euripides,
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone, Hippolytus Veiled,
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture, The Marbles of Ægina, The Age of Athletic Prizemen
MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES (1895)
Preface, Prosper Mérimée, Raphael, Pascal, Art Notes in North Italy,
Notre-Dame d’Amiens, Vézelay, Apollo in Picardy, The Child in the House,
Emerald Uthwart, Diaphaneité
GASTON DE LATOUR (1896)
ESSAYS FROM ‘THE GUARDIAN’ (1896)
English Literature, Amiel’s “Journal Intime,” Browning, “Robert Elsmere,”
Their Majesties’ Servants, Wordsworth, Mr. Gosse’s Poems, Ferdinand Fabre,
The “Contes” of M. Augustin Filon
UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS (1875–93)
Symonds’s “Renaissance in Italy,” M. Lemaître’s “Serenus, and Other Tales,”
The Life and Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Wordsworth, A Poet with Something to Say,
“It Is Thyself,” Fabre’s “Toussaint Galabru,” “Correspondance de Gustave Flaubert,”
Giordano Bruno, “A Century of Revolution”, A Novel by Mr. Oscar Wilde,
Mr. George Moore as an Art Critic, Shadwell’s Dante, Æsthetic Poetry