Poppedin is a curious furry purple cat on adventure in- and around the house. This time Poppedin is in for a surprise when he wakes up on Christmas morning.

Poppedin is a curious furry purple cat on adventure in- and around the house. It’s a beautiful day. Poppedin is exploring the garden. There he finds a pond where a couple of fish are playing a game. Can Poppedin join them?

'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined the practice of criti...

According to Wikipedia: "Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 - 30 July 1894) was an English essayist and critic of art and literary critic....his study of "Aesthetic Poetry" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, to be succeeded by essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola and Michelangelo. These, with other similar studies, were collected in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance in 1873. Pater, now at the centre of a small but interesting circle in Oxford, ...

Set in the second century A.D. against the backdrop of a Roman Empire on the verge of decline, "Marius the Epicurean" is the story of the philosophical and spiritual development of Marius, a young Italian serving as amanuensis to the great emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marius explores the various systems of philosophy in search of an elusive vision of love, moving from Epicureanism to Cyrenaicism and finally Stoicism before finally finding what he had sought in the terrible beauty of Christian ...

WITH the world of intellectual production, as with that of organic generation, nature makes no sudden starts. Natura nihil facit per saltum; and in the history of philosophy there are no absolute beginnings. Fix where we may the origin of this or that doctrine or idea, the doctrine of "reminiscence," for instance, or of "the perpetual flux," the theory of "induction," or the philosophic view of things generally, the specialist will still be able to find us some earlier anticipation of that...

Essays on Style, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Sir Thomas Brown, Love's Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's English Kings, Dante Rossetti, and Feuillet's La Morte. According to Wikipedia: "Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 - 30 July 1894) was an English essayist and critic of art and literary critic....his study of "Aesthetic Poetry" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, to be succeeded by essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola and Michelangelo. Th...

"An Essay on Style" by Walter Pater is a profound exploration of the nature of style in literature and art. Pater emphasizes the importance of individual expression and the aesthetic experience, arguing that style is not merely a superficial aspect of writing but a reflection of the author's inner self. He delves into the relationship between form and content, suggesting that true artistry lies in the ability to convey deep emotions and ideas through a unique stylistic approach. Pater's in...

A young man in the second-century Roman empire explores various schools of philosophy and religion-from Stoicism to the emerging faith of Christianity-as he searches for meaning and beauty while serving as amanuensis to the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher, is renowned for his contributions to Western thought, particularly through his dialogues that explore ethics, politics, and metaphysics. His theory of Forms posits that non-material abstract forms, and not the material world, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. This philosophical framework laid the groundwork for Platonism, which emphasizes the existence of a higher realm of truth and knowledge, influencing countless thinkers thro...

The era now referred to as the Renaissance represented an unparalleled blossoming of art and culture. Take a tour of the period through the imagination of Walter Pater, one of England's most renowned art historians and critics. In this volume, Pater turns his attention to a series of Renaissance masterpieces in visual art and literature. An informative and engaging read for fans of early modern art and culture.

WITH the world of intellectual production, as with that of organic generation, nature makes no sudden starts. Natura nihil facit per saltum; and in the history of philosophy there are no absolute beginnings. Fix where we may the origin of this or that doctrine or idea, the doctrine of "reminiscence," for instance, or of "the perpetual flux," the theory of "induction," or the philosophic view of things generally, the specialist will still be able to find us some earlier anticipation of that...