WALTER HORATIO PATER
[213] The “aesthetic” poetry is neither
a mere reproduction of Greek or medieval poetry, nor
only an idealisation of modern life and sentiment.
The atmosphere o...
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Biography EssayWalter Pater is important to English literary history because he combines a commitment to the romantic theory that art is essentially an expression of personality with a sympathetic res...
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The English author Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was the most influential figure in the Esthetic movement of the late 19th century. His writings reveal a mind of sensibility and discrimination, emb...
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Walter Pater is important to English literary history because he combines a commitment to the romantic theory that art is essentially an expression of personality with a sympathetic response to the sc...
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Walter Pater called the short fictions he published between 1878 and 1893 "imaginary portraits." They are a distinctive blend of history, myth, and autobiography, the outgrowth of his study and writin...
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