About the Book
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.
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
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
