Walter Pater
Walter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists. His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, was taken by many as a manifesto of Aestheticism.
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- Shadwell
- Educated at
- The Queen's CollegeBrasenose CollegeEnfield Grammar School
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Trending topics shown first"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."
"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."
"To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people."
"Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual ex…"
"We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-wor…"
"Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced."
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1839
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Birth1894
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