Strangeness and Beauty: Volume 2, Pater to Symons Warner Hough Paperback

Strangeness and Beauty: Volume 2, Pater to SymonsAn Anthology of Aesthetic Criticism 18401910\nAuthor(s): Eric Warner, Graham Hough\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521282918, 978-0521282918\nSynopsis\nThis is a two-volume anthology of criticism of art and literature from approximately 1840 to 1910. The central purpose of the anthology is to show how Romantic ideas of art and imagination were transformed by a number of writers in the nineteenth century and became the fundamental premisses of modernist aesthetics. The presiding genius of volume 2 is Pater, who was much influenced by Ruskin's belief in refining and educating the senses as a path to spiritual fulfilment. However, whereas Ruskin saw this education as a means of enriching the moral and religious life conceived in fundamentally orthodox terms, Pater regards religion as a supreme aesthetic experience with no particular connections ei.