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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.
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.
Nov 14, 2017 · Walter Pater (1839–1894) is best known for his phrase “art for art’s sake.” In his insistence on artistic autonomy, on aesthetic experience as opposed to aesthetic object, and on experience in general as an ever vanishing flux, he is a precursor of modern views of both life and art.
Jun 27, 2023 · Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism. Trinity College, Oxford. 26-27 June 2023.
English essayist and critic. A bachelor don at Brasenose College, Oxford, he lived uneventfully with his two spinster sisters and was the unlikely standard-bearer for Aestheticism, which set a supreme value upon the enjoyment of beauty.
Jun 27, 2024 · 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.
Mar 2, 2011 · Walter Pater, classicist and Oxford don, radical aesthetic philosopher, and consummate prose stylist, was immensely influential in his own day.
