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| Name: |
Walter Horatio Pater | | Birth Date: |
August 4, 1839 | | Death Date: |
July 30, 1894 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Walter Horatio Pater
879 words, approx. 3 pages
 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, embodying its judgments in carefully wrought prose. By... summary from source:
Biography of Walter Horatio Pater
16,060 words, approx. 54 pages
 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 scientific and historical studies of the Victorian... summary from source:
 Biography of Walter (Horatio) Pater
6,257 words, approx. 21 pages
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 writing in the 1860s and 1870s on the Italian and French... 
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 Walter Pater Quotes
595 words, approx. 2 pages
Walter Horatio Pater ( 4 August 1839 - 30 July 1894 ) was an English essayist and literary critic. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Renaissance (1873) 1.2 Marius the Epicurean (1885) 2 External links // Sourced It is the addition of strangeness to beauty...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Pater, Walter (Horatio)
100 words, approx. 1 pages(born Aug. 4, 1839, Shadwell, London, Eng.—died July 30, 1894, Oxford, Oxfordshire) English critic, essayist, and humanist. Elected a fellow at the University of Oxford in 1864, Pater made his reputation as a scholar and aesthete with essays... summary from source:
 Walter Pater Information
1,187 words, approx. 4 pages
Walter Horatio Pater (August 4 1839 - July 30 1894) was an English essayist and art and literary...
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 National Review Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls.
07/31/1995: 854 words, approx. 3 pages THIS IS how Walter Pater begins his only completed novel, Marius the Epicurean: ''As, in the triumph of Christianity, the old religion lingered latest in the country, and died out at last as but paganism -- the religion of the villagers, before the... summary from source:
The Art Bulletin The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe.(Book Review)
09/01/2005: 2,220 words, approx. 7 pages STEPHEN BANN, ED. The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. 311 pp. $225 In 1994, I had the pleasure of attending a conference in Canterbury devoted to Walter Pater. One evening we went on a walking... summary from source:
 The New York Observer A Brief Tour of the Classics, Led by a Nimble Expert
6/19/2005: 1,220 words, approx. 4 pagesThe 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, sharp touch. And nobody gets hurt, certainly not the great dead white males themselves, who...
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Williams
11,985 words, approx. 40 pages
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 alternative to prevailing modern thought.
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Critical Essay by J. Hillis Miller
9,346 words, approx. 31 pages
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 also contends that the various and contradictory readings of his positions are irreconcilable.
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