Abbreviations

Quotations from the writings of Pater (an inveterate reviser of his own works) are taken, unless otherwise explicitly stated, from the edition of The Renaissance: The 1893 Text by Donald L. Hill (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1980) and, for the rest, the New Library Edition published by Macmillan in 1910. We also give references for the published volumes of The Collected Works of Walter Pater, general eds Lesley Higgins and David Latham (Oxford 2019–), vol. 3 Imaginary Portraits, ed. Lene Østermark-Johansen; vol. 4 Gaston de Latour, ed. Gerald Monsman; vol. 8, Classical Studies, ed. Matthew Potolsky.

The following abbreviations for Pater’s works are used throughout:

‘AP’

‘Aesthetic Poetry’, in the first edition of Appreciations (1889), 213–27 (thereafter replaced by ‘Feuillet’s “La Morte”’)

App.

Appreciations: With an Essay on ‘Style’ (New Library Edition, vol. 5)

‘CW’

‘Coleridge’s Writings’, Westminster Review n.s. 29 (January 1866), 106–32

CW

The Collected Works of Walter Pater (Oxford)

Essays

Essays from ‘The Guardian’ (vol. 10)

Gast.

Gaston de Latour: An Unfinished Romance (vol. 9)

GS

Greek Studies: A Series of Essays (vol. 7)

Houghton MS

Walter Pater’s manuscripts held in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, bMSEng 1150

IP

Imaginary Portraits (vol. 4)

ME

Marius the Epicurean (vols 2–3) (In citations from Marius, i and ii refer to the two volumes of the novel; chapter numbers are also given.)

MS

Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays (vol. 8)

PP

Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures (vol. 6)

Ren.

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Hill edition)

Other abbreviations used in the notes are:

Arnold, Prose

Matthew Arnold, The Complete Prose Works, ed. R. H. Super, 9 vols (Ann Arbor, MI 1960–73)

Critical Heritage

Walter Pater: The Critical Heritage, ed. R. M. Seiler (1980)

Inman (1981)

Billie Andrew Inman, Walter Pater’s Reading: A Bibliography of His Library Borrowings and Literary References, 1858–1873 (New York and London 1981)

Inman (1990)

Billie Andrew Inman, Walter Pater and His Reading: 1874–1877: With a Bibliography of His Library Borrowings, 1878–1894 (New York and London 1990)

Letters

Letters of Walter Pater, ed. Lawrence Evans (Oxford 1970)

Ricks, ‘Misquotation’

Christopher Ricks, ‘Walter Pater, Matthew Arnold and Misquotation’, in The Force of Poetry (Cambridge 1984), 392–416