Essays from 'The Guardian', by Walter Pater
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"[...]prose style. The essential difference between poetry and prose—"that other beauty of prose"—in the words of the motto he has chosen from Dryden, the first master of the sort of prose he prefers:—that is Mr. Saintsbury's burden. It is a consideration, undoubtedly, of great importance both for the writer and the critic; in England especially, where, although (as Mr. Saintsbury rightly points out, in correction of an imperfectly informed French critic of our literature) the radical distinction between poetry and prose has ever been recognized by its students, yet the imaginative impulse, which is perhaps the richest of our purely intellectual gifts, has been apt to invade the province of that tact and good judgment, alike as to matter and manner, in which we are not richer than other people. Great poetry and great prose, it might be found, have most of their qualities in common. But [5] their indispensable qualities are different, or even opposed; and it is just the indispensable qualities of prose and poetry respectively, which it is so necessary for those who have to do with either to bear ever in mind. Order, precision, directness, are the radical merits of prose thought; and it is more than merely legitimate that they should form the criterion of prose style, because within the scope of those qualities, according to Mr. Saintsbury, there is more than just the quiet, unpretending usefulness of the bare sermo pedestris. Acting on language,[...]".
Essays from 'The Guardian', by Walter Pater- Published on: 2015-03-06
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .15" w x 6.00" l, .19 pounds
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- 66 pages
About the Author Harold Bloom is a distinguised literary critic and University Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A short collection from a long time ago By Christopher (o.d.c.) Publication date: 1910CONTENTS 1. English Literature, 2. Amiel's "Journal Intime", 3. Browning, 4. "Robert Elsmere" 5. Their Majesties' Servants, 6. Wordsworth, 7. Mr. Gosse's Poems, 8. Ferdinand Fabre, 9. The "Contes" of M. Augustin Filon.I was surprised at myself, coming to the end of this short collection, to find that I had once rated it two stars. I must have been put off by the first essay, and by the unfamiliar names in the table of contents, because there are three or four essays of the nine which are well worth reading, mostly because Pater quotes extensively from the books he is reviewing.Here he quotes from Amiel's Journal and comments on it:"The relation of thought to action," he writes, "filled my mind on waking, and I found myself carried towards a bizarre formula, which seems to have something of the night still clinging about it. Action is but coarsened thought." That is but an ingenious metaphysical point, as he goes on to show. But, including in "action" that literary production in which the line of his own proper activity lay, he followed—followed often—that fastidious utterance to a cynical and pessimistic conclusion.The long discussion of the merits and demerits of ROBERT ELSEMERE builds up to this outspoken remark:Doubtless, it is part of the ideal of the Anglican Church that, under certain safeguards, it should find room for latitudinarians even among its clergy. Still, with these, as with all other genuine priests, it is the positive not the negative result that justifies the position. We have little patience with those liberal clergy who dwell on nothing else than the difficulties of faith and the propriety of concession to the opposite force."Their Majesties' Servants" is a review of a history of actors and the stage, and the anecdotes are marvelous:An angry word, passed one April evening of 1682 between the son of Sir Edward Dering and a hot-blooded young Welshman, led to recrimination and sword-drawing. The two young fellows not having elbow-room in the pit, clambered on to the stage, and fought there, to the greater comfort of the audience, and with a more excited fury on the part of the combatants. The mingling of the public with the players was a practice which so annoyed the haughty French actor, Baron, that to suggest to the audience the absurdity of it, he would turn his back on them for a whole act, and play to the audience on the stage.Pater reviews a few French authors who are hardly remembered today. His accounts of their novels and stories are quite detailed and illustrative.Walter Horatio Pater wrote more significant books than this slim collection of newspaper pieces, but it is a fine introduction to his style and often intrinsically interesting as well.
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