Walter Pater by Crinkley Richmond;

Author:Crinkley, Richmond; [Crinkley, Richmond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Any artistic mode which centers on the shortness of life and the contrasting “bloom of the world” necessarily centers on the human form and its beauty; the memory, collective and individual, of the human form in its particular and general manifestations becomes the artist’s problem in art because it is his problem in life. So the young Marius, after the death of Flavian, endeavors by act of will to impress the image of his dead friend upon his consciousness so that it will never be lost.

The sun shone out on the people going to work for a long hot day, and Marius was standing by the dead, watching, with a deliberate purpose to fix in his memory every detail, that he might have this picture in reserve, should any hour of forgetfulness hereafter come to him with the temptation to feel completely happy again. A feeling of outrage, of resentment against nature itself, mingled with an agony of pity, as he noted on the now placid features a certain look of humility, almost abject, like the expression of a smitten child or animal, as of one, fallen at last, after bewildering struggle, wholly under the power of a merciless adversary. From mere tenderness of soul he would not forget one circumstance in all that; as a man might piously stamp on his memory the death-scene of a brother wrongfully condemned to die, against a time that may come.33

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