Walter Pater

by Ian Fletcher

'We read Pater', says Dr Fletcher, in his most perceptive study, 'not because we expect to be dominated by him, but because we enjoy being surprised by him.' He adds: 'He has created himself for us in his oeuvre as a permanently significant symbolical figure: the most complete example, the least trivial, of the aesthetic man.'

Dr Ian Fletcher is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Reading. His publications include an edition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582011140
• ISBN13: 9780582011144
• Release Date: September 1959
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 64 Pages