The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

1899

Brasch NX449 P924

New York: Macmillan

Early modernists admired Walter Pater’s work and looked to it for their philosophy, forms, and techniques. Pater brought individual consciousness and experience into the foreground, influencing the subjective, stream-of-consciousness writing of the modernists. In his ‘Conclusion’ to The Renaissance, he is fascinated by the continual drift of momentary impressions, images, and sensations through an individual’s mind.