Volume 28, Number 8 · May 14, 1981
Hide and Seek
By Denis Donoghue
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (The 1893 Text)
by Walter Pater, edited by Donald L. Hill
University of California Press, 489 pp., $25.00
Walter Pater's Art of Autobiography
by Gerald Monsman
Yale University Press, 174 pp., $12.50
In 1965 the Yale scholar René Wellek remarked that 'today Pater is under a cloud; he is no longer widely read, and he is dismissed as an 'impressionistic' critic.' The cloud has lifted. Most of Pater's books are still out of print, it is nearly impossible to find a set of the standard edition of his works, the Library Edition in ten volumes first issued in 1910; he is not yet widely read. But he is more vividly present today than at any time in the past fifty years.
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