The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style is more striking than the plain . Indeed many people think that a style that does not attract notice is not style . They will admire Walter Pater's , but will read an essay by Matthew ...
... Walter Pater . It is obvious that the grand style is more striking than the plain . Indeed many people think that a style that does not attract notice is not style . They will admire Walter Pater's , but will read an essay by Matthew ...
Page 86
... Walter Pater and George Meredith . I was very ready to do what I was told to achieve this desirable end and incredible as it must seem I read The Shaving of Shagpat with roars of laughter . It seemed to me superlatively funny . Then I ...
... Walter Pater and George Meredith . I was very ready to do what I was told to achieve this desirable end and incredible as it must seem I read The Shaving of Shagpat with roars of laughter . It seemed to me superlatively funny . Then I ...
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... Pater's attitude towards the life about him , cloistered , faintly supercilious , gentlemanly , donnish in short ... Walter Pater was a feeble creature : it is unneces- sary to condemn him with intensity . I dislike him not for ...
... Pater's attitude towards the life about him , cloistered , faintly supercilious , gentlemanly , donnish in short ... Walter Pater was a feeble creature : it is unneces- sary to condemn him with intensity . I dislike him not for ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth