The collection opens with Pater’s famous essay on style, which weighs the distinct excellences of prose and verse and asks what makes a sentence true to its writer’s mind. Studies follow of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Browne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and three Shakespeare subjects: Love’s Labours Lost, Measure for Measure and the history plays.
Criticism from the master of Victorian aesthetic prose, written as carefully as the literature it praises. Download the free EPUB.