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XXIX. Pater, Heine, and the Old Gods of Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John Smith Harrison
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Pater's thought is thoroughly pervaded by the Teutonic element; indeed, when he begins his essay, Apollo in Picardy, with an unidentified quotation which reads like a synthesis of his own reflections and credits it to “a writer of Teutonic proclivities,” the observant reader is inclined to suspect that Pater is really quoting from himself. Even if this identification should prove to be mistaken, Pater's interest in Goethe, in Hegel, and in Winckelmann still points to his indebtedness to Tuetonic thought, for the substance of his work constantly shows how the ideas of these Germans fertilized his own thinking on such matters as the aim and ideal of life, the fundamental principles of æsthetic theory, Romanticism as a mood of the mind, Greek art and Greek mythology. The present paper is not concerned with this Teutonic influence in all of its phases, but confines itself to a single theme, to be traced not only in Pater's critical essays but also in his more creative and fanciful pieces, in which an idea derived from Heinrich Heine comes to its blossoming. Pater met with this idea in the writings of Heine as early as 1869 and he continued to show his interest in it down to 1893, so that its influence is discernible throughout almost the whole course of his literary career.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 1924 , pp. 655 - 686
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1924

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References

1 Apollo in Picardy, in Miscellaneous Studies, p. 142. All page references to Pater's essays are to the ‘Library Edition’ of his works.

2 Pico delta Mirandola, in The Renaissance, p. 31.

3 Loenardo da Vinci, in The Renaissance, p. 118.

4 Pico delia Mirandola, pp. 31–33. Cf. The Works of Heinrich Heine, trs. C. G. Leland, XII, 339–341.

5 Pico della Mirandola, p. 44.

6 Ibid., p. 31.

7 Ibid., p. 31.

8 Two Early French Stories, in The Renaissance, p. 24.

9 Ibid, p. 4.

10 The Works'of Heinrich Heine, trs. C. G. Leland. XII, 322.

11 The Bacchanals of Euripides, in Greek Studies, p. 53.

12 A Study of Dionysus, in Greek Studies, p. 29.

13 The Bacchanals of Euripides, in Greek Studies, pp. S3.

14 Ibid., p. 65.

15 Ibid., p. 68.

16 Denys L'Auxerrois, in Imaginary Portraits, p. 47.

17 The Works of Heinrich Heine, trs. by C. G. Leland, XII, 341–351.

18 Denys L'Auxerrois, in Imaginary Portraits, p. 54.

19 Le Morte D'Arthur, Book I, ch. 17.

20 A Study of Dionysus, in Greek Studies, p. 37.

21 The Bacchanals of Euripides, in Greek Studies, p. 69.

22 Denys VAuxerrois, in Imaginary Portraits, p. 72.

23 A Study of Dionysus, p. 22 n.l.

24 Denys L'Auxerrois, p. 71.

25 Ibid, p. 58.

26 The Mediœval Stage, E. K. Chambers, II, 128, n. 4.

27 The Bacchanals of Euripides, pp. 65–66.

28 Denys L'Auxerrois, p. 58.

29 Ibid, p. 59.

30 Ibid, p. 63–4.

31 Ibid, p. 61.

32 Cf. A Study of Dionysus, p. 48.

33 Cf. A Study of Dionysus, p. 48.

34 The Works of Htinrich Heine, trs. by C. G. Leland, X, 289; cf Pater's Greek Studies, p. 44.

35 A Study of Dionysus, pp. 43–44.

36 Denys L'Auxerrois, pp. 68–69.

37 Ibi.p 59.

38 Bohn. trs. 11. 336–340.

39 Denys L'Auxerrois, p. 65.

40 Ibid, p. 51–52.

41 Imaginary Portraits, p. 132.

42 Ibid., p. 144.

43 Ibid, p. 144–5.

44 Miscellaneous Studies, pp. 47–8.

45 Apollo in Picardy, p. 147.

46 Plato and Platonism, p. 207.

47 Miscellaneous Studies, p. 148.

48 The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race. C. O. Mueller, trs. by Tufuell and Lewis, I, 311–312.

49 Apollo in Picardy, p. 156.

50 Ibid., p. 166.

51 Plato and Platonism, p. 200.

52 Apollo in Picardy, p. 148.

53 Ibid., p. 153.

54 Apollo in Picardy, p. 155.

55 Ibid.

56 Mueller, loc. cit. II, 377–9; cf. Pater's Plato and Platonism, pp. 226–7.

57 Apollo in Picardy, p. 150.

58 Ibid, p. 156.

59 p. 158.

60 Mueller, I, 361–2.

61 Ibid., I, 296.

62 Apollo in Picardy, 163–164.

63 Ibid., p. 151.

64 Mueller, I, 295–6.

65 Apollo in Picardy, p. 160.

66 Ibid, p. 157.

67 Mueller, I, 296.

68 Apollo in Picardy, p. 157.

69 Ibid., p. 151–2.

70 Ibid., p. 161.

71 Ibid., p. 158.

72 Ibid., p. 147.

73 Ibid., p. 157.

74 Mueller, loc. cit. I, 321–2.

75 Apollo in Picardy, p. 152.

76 Apollo in Picardy, p. 153.

77 The Works of Heinrich Heine, DC, 175. Bk. III.

78 Apollo in Picardy, p. 168.