Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography; Pater, Walter, 1839-1894
views on principles of art, 195–6;
admiration for _Amiel’s Journal_, 199;
habits of composition, 201–6;
significant writing, 204;
principal characteristics of style, 204, 215;
typical sentence, 204–5;
did not read Stevenson or Kipling, 205–6;
always regards nature as a background, 206–7;
sensitiveness to adverse criticism, 209;
no precocious desire to write, 209–10;
abstains from verse composition, 210;
late development of style, 210–1;
attitude towards art, 212;
position in later English literature, 212–15;
writing contrasted with Carlyle’s, 213;
as a writer akin to Charles Lamb, 213;
a dreamer, 217–20.
Pater’s friends, 20, 21.
Pater, William Thompson (brother), 2.
Pattison, Mark (Rector of Lincoln), 21, 37, 190, 192.
_Pensées_ (Pascal), 173.
“Philosophers, The Three” (“The Chaldean Sages”), (picture), 50.
Plato, 165, 167.
_Plato and Platonism_, 20, 54, 58,
Jowett’s admiration of, 58;
began to appear (1892), 156; 159;
eventually published (1893), 162; 163–8.
Poe, E. A., criticism of, 23.
_Purgatory_ (C. L. Shadwell’s trans. of), 159.
Q
Queen’s College (Oxford), description of, 8.
R
_Renaissance, Studies in the History of the_ (with “Preface” and
“Conclusion”), 1st ed. (1873), 2nd and 3rd (1877), 32–3; 35,
36—
“Conclusion,” 45,
reason for exclusion from 2nd ed. of _Studies_, etc., 46, 47–8;
principle of selection explained, 37;
Lady Dilke’s criticism of, 37–8; 49–51, 52, 59, 162.
“Aucassin and Nicolette” (“Two Early French Stories”) (1873), 32–3,
38.
“Joachim du Bellay,” 33, 44–5.
“_Leonardo da Vinci, Notes on_” (1869), 32, 41, 42–3, 49, 177.
“Luca della Robbia,” 33, 39.
“Michelangelo, Poetry of,” 32, 39–40.
“Pico della Mirandola” (1871), 32, 38–9.
“Sandro Botticelli, A Fragment on,” 32, 39.
“School of Giorgione, The” (1877), 43–4, 50–1, 66.
“Winckelmann” (1866), 27–31, 45.
_Robert Elsmere_ (Mrs. H. Ward), 57,
review on, 119, 198–9.
“Rossetti, Dante Gabriel” (Ward’s _English Poets_), essay on, 86–7.
Ruskin, John, 7, 51, 163, 185, 214–15.
S
“Shadows of Events” (_Gaston de Latour_), 140.
Shadwell, 2.
Shadwell, Dr. Charles Lancelot (Pater’s lifelong friend), 9, 10 _n._;
as literary executor, 21.
“Solomon, The Judgment of” (picture), 51.
Stevenson, R. L., 205–6.
“Stormy Landscape, The” (“Adrastus and Hypsipyle”) (picture), 50, 51.
“Style,” see _Appreciations_.
Swinburne, Mr. A., 21.
Symons, Mr. Arthur, 21, 123.
T
_Tailor, The_ (Moroni’s), 123.
Telemachus, 26.
U
_Uthwart, Emerald_, see _Miscellaneous Studies_.
V
Verrocchio, 49.
W
Ward, Mr. Humphry, 18,
anecdote touching Pater’s lectures, 20;
Fellow of Brasenose, 21;
description of Pater, 22;
as tutor, 25;
spends summer vacation with, 26;
on Pater as a Fellow, 84, 199.
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