Miscellaneous Studies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><p>This posthumous 1895 collection brings together, from many different journals and magazines, Paters influential and wide-ranging writings. The contents include Prosper Mérimée, Raphael, Pascal, Art Notes in Northern Italy, Notre-Dame dAmiens, Vézelay, Apollo in Picardy, The Child in the House, Emerald Uthwart, and one of his earliest essays, Diaphaneité, a meditation on the sensual and the moral.</p></div>

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<div><p><b>Walter Pater</b> (1839-1894) was a British critic and essayist who championed the idea of "art for art's sake," which was later used by such figures as Oscar Wilde and other devotees of Aestheticism.&#xa0; His essays on art and literature were printed in his S<i>tudies in the History of the Renaissance</i> (1873), one of his most famous works.</p></div>

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