Walter Pater : an imaginative sense of fact : [a collection of essays

First Published in 1981. Pater is certainly the least widely read and understood of any of the Victorian critics and creative writers, though there are signs of a coming revival of interest in him. Each of the discussions included in this issue devoted to Pater touches, in some significant way, on his'imaginative sense of fact,'on his struggle with the objective ‘givens'of experience (ideas or individuals), and on his efforts to co-opt or turn that Other into a reordered reflection of his own image. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 Notes on Contributors......Page 7 Introduction: On Reading Pater......Page 8 The Intellectual Context of Walter Pater’s “Conclusion”......Page 18 Pater’s Criticism: Some Distinctions......Page 36 Judas and the Widow. Thomas Wright and A.C.Benson as Biographers of Walter Pater......Page 44 Pater and Ruskin on Michelangelo......Page 60 A Case for the Unretouched, if Imaginary, Portrait......Page 80 Editing Walter Pater......Page 84 The “Paper in MS.”......Page 88 Walter Pater Studies: 1970–1980......Page 92 Reviewing Walter Pater's 1873 Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Mrs Mark Pattison complained that its title was "misleading" because "the historical element is precisely that which is wanting, and its absence makes the weak place of the whole book."