Pater, Walter Horatio(1839–1894)
Walter Horatio Pater, an English essayist and critic, lived mainly in Oxford, where he read classics at Queens College and later became a fellow of Brasenose. H...
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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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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1911, Saintsbury considers Pater's disputed reputation as the finest literary critic of his generation.
To assert too positively that Mr Wal...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1976, Miller examines Pater's thoughts on such topics as time, virtue, personality, uniqueness, repetition, form, meaning, and subjectivity; he a...
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In the following excerpt, Williams examines the infamous “Conclusion” to Studies in the History of the Renaissance and explains what Pater meant in proposing aesthetic distance as an alt...
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In the following essay, Conlon examines several of Pater's “artful misrepresentations” and argues that they were created to more fully present Pater's “imaginative s...
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In the following excerpt, Fellows analyzes the nature of Pater's prose, describing it as stationary yet penetrating.
The wind, persistent, the mantle, purple, the blond hair in the persisten...
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In the following essay, Candido describes Pater's portrait of Jean-Antoine Watteau as radically incorporating multiple layers of perspective. Candido also discusses Pater's inclusion of ...
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In the following essay, Coates describes “Duke Carl of Rosenmold” as Pater's treatment of the conflict between historical difference and historical continuity.
May it be my par...
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In the following essay, Barolsky extols The Renaissance as a literary work of art that is at once historical, autobiographical, philosophical, and poetical.
A flood of publications on the elusive V...
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In the following essay, Warren describes some characteristics of the aesthetic type, comments on the ways in which they do and do not apply to Pater, and speculates on Pater's religious faith.
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In the following essay, Dellamora contends that Pater's revision of the first chapter of The Renaissance attempts to reconcile Christianity and homoeroticism.
The following essay challenges ...
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In the following essay, Monsman asserts that Pater's work contains many alternative possible meanings; its ambiguities, variations, and masks defy final meaning, he concludes.
“White-...
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In the following essay, Buckler uses “The Child in the House” as an example of how Pater combines recollection, insight, and form to make his prose poetic.
If one can profitably think...
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In the following excerpt, Buckler traces Pater's aesthetic development as evidenced in his works.
That Walter Pater is our premier exponent and exemplar of aestheticism has long been general...
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The American Classics: A Personal Essay, by Denis Donoghue. Yale University Press, 295 pages, $27.Rapping the knuckles of the American classics is good fun-especially if it's done with a light, sha...
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Pater, Walter Horatio (1839–1894)
Walter Horatio Pater
Walter (Horatio) Pater
Critical Essay by George Saintsbury
A Brief Tour of the Classics, Led by a Nimble Expert
