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Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.
- Academic, essayist, writer
- The Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885)
Apr 1, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Walter Pater (1839–94) was the foremost Victorian writer on art and on aesthetic experience. His ideas still shape modern assumptions about how art plays on our feelings and intellectual responses. This edition of Pater's complete works was published in 1900–1 in a limited edition of 775 copies.
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Jan 31, 2010 · Book digitized by Google from the library of New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Walter Pater’s most popular book is The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry.
Nov 21, 2010 · The Major Works of Walter Horatio Pater. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, 1873. Full text (in The Victorian Web) Chapter from DeLaura's Hebrew and Hellene. Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas, 1885. ( e-text )*. Introduction. Aesthetic Worship. Imaginary Portraits, 1887 ( e-text )*.
by Elyse Graham. 1. Born in a slum in the East End of London in 1839, Walter Pater was the son of a professional family barely hanging on to the middle class.^1 When Pater was two, his father, a general practitioner, died suddenly of a brain hemmorhage.
