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Apr 27, 2021 · 1877. Oscar Wilde was in his senior year at Magdalen College, Oxford when he first corresponded with essayist and critic, Walter Pater (1839-1894). Wilde, aware of Pater's great influence, sent him a copy of his first published article as a means to introduce himself. In his introduction, Wilde also expressed his admiration for The Renaissance.
Both Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, admittedly well-known in their lifetime, offer apparently contrasting situations to explore the conditions of remediation of their reviews. 5 My corpus is composed of mostly unsigned literary reviews, temporarily rubbing shoulders, in the case of Oscar Wilde, with letters to the editor, lectures in the twin ...
Walter Pater (born August 4, 1839, Shadwell, London, England—died July 30, 1894, Oxford, Oxfordshire) was an English critic, essayist, and humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism. Pater was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and at Queen’s College, Oxford ...
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The attitudes of the movement were also represented in the writings of Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater and the illustrations of Aubrey Beardsley in the periodical The Yellow Book. The painter James McNeill Whistler raised the movement’s ideal of the cultivation of refined sensibility to perhaps its highest point.
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Dec 9, 2016 · THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WILDE Oscar Wilde and His Family By Emer O’Sullivan Illustrated. 495 pp. Bloomsbury Press. $35. ... Walter Pater, an Oxford professor; Wilde gave flesh to Pater’s ...
--Oscar Wilde, Salomé 1. It was from within, apparently, that the foulness and horror had come. --Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Gothic Chiaroscuro and Realism . The Picture of Dorian Gray proceeds against the background of Walter Pater's aesthetic writings, but also against Pater in a stronger sense.
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