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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.
6 days ago · 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.
Jul 10, 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.
Walter Horatio Pater was born on 4th August 1839 near Stepney in London. Pater's early life was overshadowed by the sudden premature deaths of his father and mother. It is likely that these deaths influenced his preoccupation with "the awful brevity" of life ( Renaissance 152).
Apr 12, 2023 · We explore Pater's early life, his time at Oxford, and the development of his aesthetic theories, as well as his most significant works, including 'The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry'...
