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That he is thus a characteristic specimen of the poetical taste of that age, is indeed Du Bellay's chief interest. But if his work is to have the highest sort of interest, if it is to do something more than satisfy curiosity, if it is to have an æsthetic as distinct from an historic value, it is not enough for a poet to have been the true child of his age, to have conformed to its æ sthetic conditions, and by so conforming to have charmed and stimulated that age; it is necessary that there should be perceptible in his work something individual, inventive, unique, the impress there of the writer's own temper and personality. This impress M. Sainte-Beuve thought he found in the 'Antiquités de Rome' and the 'Regrets,' which he ranks as what has been called poésie intime, that intensely modern sort of poetry in which the writer has for his aim the portrayal of his own most intimate moods, to take the reader into his confidence. That generation had other instances of this intimacy of sentiment: Montaigne's Essays are full of it, the carvings of the church of Brou are full of it. M. Sainte-Beuve has perhaps exaggerated the influence of this quality in Du Bellay's 'Regrets'; but the very name of the book has a touch of Rousseau [142] about it, and reminds one of a whole generation of self-pitying poets in modern times. It was in the atmosphere of Rome, to him so strange and mournful, that these pale flowers grew up; for that journey to Italy, which he deplored as the greatest misfortune of his life, put him in full possession of his talent, and brought out all its originality. And in effect you do find intimité, intimacy, here. The trouble of his life is analysed, and the sentiment of it conveyed directly to our minds; not a great sorrow or passion, but only the sense of loss in passing days, the ennui of a dreamer who has to plunge into the world's affairs, the opposition between life and the ideal, a longing for rest, nostalgia, homesickness — that preeminently childish, but so suggestive sorrow, as significant of the final regret of all human creatures for the familiar earth and limited sky. The feeling for landscape is often described as a modern one; still more so is that for antiquity, the sentiment of ruins. Du Bellay has this sentiment. The duration of the hard sharp outlines of things is a grief to him, and passing his wearisome days among the ruins of ancient Rome, he is consoled by the thought that all must one day end, by the sentiment of the grandeur of nothingness, la grandeur du rien. With a strange touch of far-off mysticism, he thinks that le grand tout itself, into which all things pass, ought [143] itself sometimes to perish and pass away. Nothing less can relieve his weariness. From the stately aspects of Rome, his thoughts went back continually to France, to the smoking chimneys of his little village, the longer twilight of the North, la douceur Angevine; yet not so much to the real France, we may be sure, with its dark streets and roofs of rough-hewn slate, as to that other country with slenderer towers, and more winding rivers, and trees like flowers, and softer sunshine on more gracefully-proportioned fields and ways, which the fancy of the exile, and the pilgrim, and of the schoolboy far from home, and of those kept at home unwillingly, every where builds up before or behind them.
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Walter Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
London: Macmillan and Co. 1873.
Unser Auszug: S. 141-143.
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082475124
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Wright, Samuel: A Bibliography of the Writings of Walter H. Pater.
Folkestone: Dawson 1975.
Pater, Walter: Coleridge's Writings.
In: The Westminster Review.
1866, Januar, S. 106-132.
URL: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000506030
URL: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=westminsterreview
Pater, Walter: Winckelmann.
In: The Westminster Review.
1867, Januar, S. 80–110.
URL: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000506030
URL: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=westminsterreview
Pater, Walter: Poems by William Morris.
In: The Westminster Review.
1868, Oktober, S. 300-312.
URL: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000506030
URL: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=westminsterreview
Pater, Walter: Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
London: Macmillan and Co. 1873.
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082475124
URL: https://archive.org/details/studiesinhistor01pategoog
S. X-XI: [Auszug].
S. 141-143: [Auszug].
Pater, Walter: On Wordsworth.
In: The Fortnightly Review.
Bd. 21, 1874, April, S. 455-465.
URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008882609
URL: http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/715786-1
Pater, Walter: Romanticism.
In: Macmillan's Magazine.
Bd. 35, 1876/77, November 1876, S. 64-70.
URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000061600
Pater, Walter: The Renaissance. Studies in Art and Poetry.
2d ed., rev. London: Macmillan and Co. 1877.
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x000684317
Pater, Walter: The School of Giorgione.
In: The Fortnightly Review.
Bd. 22, New Series, 1877, 1. Oktober, S. 526-538.
URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008882609
URL: http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/715786-1
Pater, Walter: Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
In: The English Poets.
Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers,
and a General Introduction by Matthew Arnold.
Edited by Thomas Humphry Ward.
Vol. 4: Wordsworth to Rossetti.
Second Edition, Revised. London: Macmillan and Co. 1883, S. 633-641.
URL: https://archive.org/details/englishpoetswor00unkngoog
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015017644959
Pater, Walter: Marius the Epicurean. His Sensations and Ideas.
2 Bde. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885.
URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001910607
URL: https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php
Pater, Walter: Imaginary Portraits.
London: Macmillan and Co. and New York 1887.
URL: https://archive.org/details/imaginaryportra05pategoog
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015000541642
Pater, Walter: The Renaissance. Studies in Art and Poetry.
Third edition, revised and enlarged.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co. 1888.
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015092202723
Pater, Walter: Style.
In: The Fortnightly Review.
Bd. 44, 1888, Dezember, S. 728-743.
URL: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008882609
URL: http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/715786-1
Pater, Walter: Appreciations. With an Essay on Style.
London: Macmillan and Co. and New York 1889.
PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn2sg6
URL: https://archive.org/details/cu31924104003326
Pater, Walter: The Collected Works.
Hrsg. von Lesley Higgins u. David Latham.
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019 ff.
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Hrsg. von Charles Martindale u.a.
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London 2004.
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In: The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry.
Hrsg. von Joseph Bristow. Cambridge u.a. 2000, S. 1-24.
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"The excitement of the literary sense".
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Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word.
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Hrsg. von Suzy Anger.
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