Walter Pater 
The Renaissance 
Studies in Art and Poetry

The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater’s text of 1893, with a record of all verbal variations in other editions, from the early magazine versions to the Library Edition of 1910. Mr. Hill provides a full set of critical and explanatory notes on each of Pater’s essays; headnotes outlining the story of its composition, publication, and reception; and an essay on the history of the book as a whole. Students of Pater and the Aesthetic Movement in England will find this new, annotated edition indispensable.


This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

The Renaissance is a strikingly original and influential collection of essays in which Walker Pater gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It has never before been published in a scholarly edition. Donald L. Hill reproduces Pater’s

Inhoudsopgave

List of lllustrations

Editor’s Preface

Textual Corrections and Emendations


The Renaissance

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


Pater’s Review of Children in Italian and English Design,

by Sidney Colvin


Pater’s Review of Renaissance in Italy: The Age of the Despots,

by John Addington Symonds


A Pater Chronology

Textual Notes

Critical and Explanatory Notes

Original Texts of Passages Translated in the Notes

Index

Over de auteur

Walter Horatio Pater (August 4,  1839 – July 30,  1894) was an English essayist, literary and art critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His works on Renaissance subjects were popular but controversial, reflecting his lost belief in Christianity.Donald L. Hill (1914-1997) was was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan.