The Works of Walter Pater [Paperback]

The first volume of Pater's only novel, first published in 1885 and here reissued in his collected works of 19001.Walter Pater (183994) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Volume 3 of his collected works of 19001 is the second of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction, set in the late Roman Empire.Walter Pater (183994) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. Volume 3 of his collected works of 19001 is the second of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction, set in the late Roman Empire.Walter Pater (183994) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. He brought his extensive knowledge of the history of art to bear on the new problem of how to explain the very personal affective response to beauty, and raised this into a central concern of aesthetic and philosophical thought. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. This edition of Pater's complete works was published in 19001 in a limited edition of 775 copies. It comprises eight volumes with an additional volume of critical essays first published in The Guardian. This is the second of two volumes of Marius the Epicurean (1885), Pater's only full-length fiction. A novel of ideas, combining history and philosophy with a fictional narrative set in the late Roman Empire, the work is a fascinating experiment in the boundaries of genre.Part III: 15. Stoicism at court; 16. Second thoughts; 17. Beata urbs; 18. 'The ceremony of the dart'; 19. The will as vision; Part IV: 20. Two curious houses. 1. Guests; 21. Two curious houses. 2. The church in Cecilia's house; 22. 'The minor peace of the church'; 23. Divine service; 24. A conversation not imaginary; 25. Sunt lacrimae rerum; 26. The martyrs; 27. The triumph of Marcus Aurelius; 28. Anima naturaliter christiana.