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From Library Journal
Pater is indeed a "difficult writer," an aesthetician preoccupied with ideas, a realizer of the abstract. His work demands the kind of patient scrutiny this study provides. As suggested by his subtitle, Buckler at once manages perceptive treatments of Pater's prose style and his system of ideas, his philosophy of criticism. Two introductory chapters lead into the heart of the bookdetailed chapters on particular works. Arguably, the most important chapter is on Plato and Platonism because this seminal work has been so often ignored, but readers looking for insight into the more "popular"texts (e.g., The Renaissance, Marius the Epicurean ) will not be disappointed. An important book for students of aesthetics and 19th-century literature and thus highly recommended (the only caveat being the price) for academic libraries. Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Pater is indeed a "difficult writer," an aesthetician preoccupied with ideas, a realizer of the abstract. His work demands the kind of patient scrutiny this study provides. As suggested by his subtitle, Buckler at once manages perceptive treatments of Pater's prose style and his system of ideas, his philosophy of criticism. Two introductory chapters lead into the heart of the bookdetailed chapters on particular works. Arguably, the most important chapter is on Plato and Platonism because this seminal work has been so often ignored, but readers looking for insight into the more "popular"texts (e.g., The Renaissance, Marius the Epicurean ) will not be disappointed. An important book for students of aesthetics and 19th-century literature and thus highly recommended (the only caveat being the price) for academic libraries. Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
