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The Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885) Notable awards. Honorary LL.D, University of Glasgow (1894) 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.
Stepney, Inglaterra. Morte. 30 de julho de 1894 (54 anos) Oxford, Inglaterra. Nacionalidade. Inglês. Ocupação. Escritor. Walter Horatio Pater ( 4 de agosto de 1839 — 30 de julho de 1894) foi um ensaísta e crítico literário inglês.
1 de abr. de 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. Pater was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and at Queen’s ...
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14 de nov. de 2017 · Learn about the life and work of Walter Pater, a Victorian critic who advocated for art for art's sake and aesthetic experience. Explore his influence on modern theory, his views of experience as a flux, and his concept of impressionism.
Walter Pater. 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. His uncle, who shared the family’s medical practice and supported his ...
2 de mar. de 2011 · A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Walter Pater, a classicist, aesthetic philosopher, and prose stylist. Learn about his influential essays, novel, and revision practices, as well as his impact on modern criticism.
Walter Pater (1839-1894) was one of the most influential English authors of the nineteenth century. He contributed towards the definition of Aestheticism and the doctrine of art for art’s sake, which he famously characterised as the desire to burn always with a ‘hard gem-like flame’.
