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  Walter Horatio Pater - LoveToKnow 1911
In 1853 Walter Pater was sent to King's School, Canterbury, where he was early impressed by the aesthetic beauties of the cathedral.
In it Pater displays, with perfected fullness and loving elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal of its own.
Pater changed his residence from time to time, living sometimes at Kensington and in different parts of Oxford; but the centre of his work and influence was always his rooms at Brasenose.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Walter_Horatio_Pater   (1019 words)

  
 Walter Pater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Horatio Pater (August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic.
Born in Stepney, England, Pater was the second son of Richard Glode Pater, a doctor, who had moved there in the early 1800s and practiced medicine among the poor.
In it, Pater is depicted stereotypically as an effeminate English aesthete.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Pater   (928 words)

  
 Walter Pater
Pater was the son of Richard Glode Pater (1797?—1842) a surgeon, and Maria Hill (Pater) (1803?-1854).
Pater graduated in 1862; by 1864, his religious conviction gone, he was elected to a fellowship at Brasenose College, remaining a tutor there the rest of his life and lecturing from 1867.
Pater chose largely unfamiliar artists (he was one of the first to write in English on Botticelli, 1870), Moretto and Romanino, identifying qualities not yet appreciated in artists, as in the case of Watteau.
www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org /paterw.htm   (1221 words)

  
 Walter Pater - MSN Encarta
Walter Horatio Pater was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford, where he spent most of his life.
Pater is remembered primarily as an innovator in aesthetics who celebrated the pleasurable effects of art on the viewer or reader.
Pater is best known for his novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), a study of the “sensations and ideas” of a young 2nd-century Roman confronting Christianity.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565835/Walter_Pater.html   (173 words)

  
 §17. Walter Pater. III. Critical and Miscellaneous Prose. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ...
On a far higher plane of literature stands Walter Pater; but he, though he was influenced by Ruskin, is singularly different from the elder writer, and the difference sheds back a light upon the master’s theories.
Pater was one of the most fastidious of literary artists.
Pater’s literary career began with the essay entitled Winckelmann, which he contributed, in 1867, to The Westminster Review, and this, with other papers contributed to periodicals, constituted the volume which was published in 1873.
www.bartleby.com /224/0317.html   (608 words)

  
 “The Last Thing Walter Wrote”: Pater's “Pascal”
Plato is Pater's late model of diaphanous man. He joins to the sensuous felicity and openmindedness of Montaigne a firm belief in the need for intellectual rigor, physical discipline, and perseverance in the pursuit of the higher truth.
Pater focuses on the apparent contradiction of Pascal's assertion that the truth of revelation must be based on evidence interpreted by the integrated powers of reason and imagination, and his assertion that the imagination only deceives the truth-seeker.
Pater suggests that by denying himself the use of the imaginative part of imaginative reason, Pascal failed to achieve "true peace within the Catholic Church." The last words of Pater's essay say that the imagination was simply in "active collusion" with Pascal's physical illness.
www.uncg.edu /eng/elt/pater/chap11.html   (2689 words)

  
 Walter Horatio Pater Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pater was born at Shadwell, East London, on Aug. 4, 1839.
Pater was coming within the influence of the "art for art's sake" movement, under the leadership of Algernon Charles Swinburne and such French writers as Théophile Gautier.
Pater's reverence for the revived classical humanism of the Italian Renaissance was evident in a series of essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Pico della Mirandola and on Michelangelo's poetry that he published in the Fortnightly Review (1869-1871).
www.bookrags.com /biography/walter-horatio-pater   (849 words)

  
 The "Illusive, Inscrutable, Mistakable" Walter Pater: an Introduction
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.
Pater took the opportunity to learn to speak German and he set to reading works of the German Enlightenment during the long vacations of 1859-62 when he stayed with his Aunt Bessie and his sisters in Heidelberg.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/pater/bio.html   (1508 words)

  
 Studies of Victorian Literature
Yet Pater was clearly a man of exquisite sensitivity and rich emotion, and we can only estimate the gap there may have been between his aspirations for a more varied life and his dedication to his work.
Pater cultivated the doctrine of art for its own sake because, in his early writing at least, he saw little possibility of using art toward some higher metaphysical or moral purpose.
For all of the distance we may feel from Pater as a person and, indeed, as a critic, he remains a crucial figure in the development of modern thought.
www.laits.utexas.edu /farrell/sages/pater/index.htm   (301 words)

  
 Art vs. aestheticism: the case of Walter Pater by Roger Kimball
Part of what made Pater’s debut scandalous was the hothouse atmosphere that he reveled in: the ripe, over-ripe sensorium that was so distant from the brisk admonitions of such pragmatic partisans of culture as Matthew Arnold.
Pater’s fascination with violence and death, with the interpenetration of death and beauty, was part of that ripeness.
Pater attempted to provide a portrait of the “true Epicurean” in Marius the Epicurean (1885), an overwrought, somewhat ponderous autobiographical novel that describes the spiritual journey of its hero from paganism to the threshold of Christianity.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/13/may95/pater.htm   (3878 words)

  
 Biography for: Walter Horatio Pater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pater was educated at the University of Oxford and in 1864 was elected to a fellowship at Brasenose College.
Pater shared with JW an interest in synaesthesia and in the third edition of The Renaissance he added his essay 'The School of Giorgione', originally published in The Fortnightly Review in October 1877, in which he famously declared that 'all art constantly aspires to the condition of music'.
Pater, Walter, Studies in the History of the Renaissance, London, 1873; Pater, W., Marius the Epicurean, London, 1885; Pater, W., Imaginary Portraits, London, 1887; Pater, W., Greek Studies: A Series of Essays, London, 1895; Pater, W., Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays, London, 1895.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Pate_W.htm   (204 words)

  
 Walter Pater - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Pater, Walter Horatio (1839-1894), English essayist and critic.
Walter Horatio Pater was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford,...
Nineteenth-century English essayist Walter Pater was deeply interested in art, aesthetics, and literature.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Walter_Pater.html   (86 words)

  
 Phlit: A Newsletter on Philosophy and Literature: Walter Pater, Zen, etc.: 2002-8 B
Pater lacks the deep religious and moral feelings that one finds in Ruskin, who was born twenty years before Pater, and Pater never experienced the painful erosion of faith that Ruskin experienced.
Pater, however, argues that culture conduces to an appreciation of the present: “the real business of education — insight, insight through culture, into all that the present moment holds in trust for us, as we stand so briefly in its presence.”6 While Thoreau approaches Zen through Nature, Pater approaches Zen through Culture.
Pater insists that living in the moment doesn’t mean living for the moment: “Not pleasure, but fulness of life, and ‘insight’ as conducting to that fulness.”7 Pater’s world-view isn’t hedonism, Zen isn’t hedonism, meditation isn’t the way to pleasure.
www.ljhammond.com /phlit/2002-08b.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Walter Pater
Walter Pater was born on August 4, 1839 to Richard Glode Pater and Maria Hill in Shadwell, East London.
By 1862 Pater had graduated with a BA (second class honours) in Literae Humaniores, he subsequently remained in Oxford to study with private pupils (Charles Lancelot Shadwell who later became fellow andd provost of Oriel was one).
Pater was elected to Old Mortality, an essay society in Oxford and on February 5, 1864 he was chosen as a probationary fellow of Brasenose College where he lived, taught and wrote for the most of his life.
www.subir.com /pater   (1034 words)

  
 Walter Pater - Edmund Gosse
Walter H. May; this mansion, part of which was very old, was the favourite holiday-haunt of the little Paters, and a place of mystery and romance to Walter.
Pater acted for some time as dean and tutor of his college, entering assiduously into the councils and discipline of the society, but he never accepted, if indeed it were ever offered, any university office.
Walter Pater was another of those discreet spirits who, like Gray, “never speak out.” He was cautious, reserved, and shy in his relations even with his friends; he seemed to possess no medium through which to approach them very closely.
www.pseudopodium.org /repress/gosse/walter-pater-a-portrait.html   (7138 words)

  
 Walter Pater
Pater was now the center of a small but very interesting circle in Oxford.
Pater changed his residence from time to time, living sometimes at Kensington and in different parts of Oxford; but the center of his work and influence was always his rooms at Brasenose.
Pater's nature was so contemplative, and in a way so centered upon reflection, that he never perhaps gave full utterance to his individuality.
www.nndb.com /people/622/000096334   (939 words)

  
 Walter Pater Summary
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 perio...
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 Ren...
Walter Horatio Pater(August 4 1839- July 30 1894) was an English essayist and literary critic.
www.bookrags.com /Walter_Pater   (282 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Pater, Walter
Pater began contributing reviews and essays to the Westminster and the Fortnightly Reviews during the late 1860s, including pieces on the poetry of William Morris and the prose of Coleridge.
In the second edition (1877), Pater suppressed the "Conclusion" on the grounds that "it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall"--as he put it when restoring a version of the essay in the book's third edition (1888).
Mallock's portrait hints at other proclivities beyond a taste for fine upholstery: Rose gazes "upon life as a chamber, which we decorate as we would decorate the chamber of the woman or the youth that we love," and is described as showing a special interest in young men.
www.glbtq.com /literature/pater_w.html   (700 words)

  
 The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe Art Bulletin, The - Find Articles
When Stephen Bann took us to Pater's house, the current residents were surprised, even alarmed, to find the assembled group of scholars on their doorstep.
Pater was writing just when the working methodology of academic art history was being established.
Along with Ruskin, Pater is the late-nineteenth-century English art historian whose writing and arguments remain of living interest.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_87/ai_n15684489   (819 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Walter Pater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Walter Pater was at times friends with Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Walter Pater moved back to London in August 1885 and lived at 12 Earl Terrace, Kensington, W8.
An engraving of Walter Pater is reproduced in A.
www.knittingcircle.org.uk /walterpater.html   (465 words)

  
 Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire
The interdisciplinary breadth of the collection demonstrates that the critical culture of Pater studies is always multifaceted--inviting diverse theoretical perspectives yet also demanding that any paradigm of analysis (feminist, new historicist, aesthetic, queer theory, formalist, biographical, Foucauldian) be tested and redefined.
Scholars from five different countries reconsider Pater's career and canon, the reception of his works, the intersections of genre, gender, and aesthetics, and the implications of Pater's writings--in aesthetics, fiction, philosophy, archaeology, art history--for contemporary cultural studies.
Disturbing Hellenism: Walter Pater, Charles Newton, and the Myth of Demeter and Persephone
www.uncg.edu /eng/elt/transblurb.htm   (266 words)

  
 International Walter Pater Society Conference
In the fall of 1998 the name of the society of subscribers to The Pater Newsletter was changed from The Pater Society of the UK and the USA to the International Walter Pater Society, in recognition of current contributions of European and Japanese scholars to Pater studies.
The Pater Society of the UK and the USA had been organized at the Modern Language Association of America Convention in New York City on 28 December 1978.
News of Pater Scholarship, No. 3, which was sent to 110 scholars known to have published writings on Pater, announced the formation of the Society at the 1978 MLA Convention.
english.rutgers.edu /conferences/iwps2006/about.html   (409 words)

  
 Pater,Walter Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Pater's assessments of Renaissance art have had a crucial influence of the art criticism of the last hundreds of years.
Pater's novel was painstakingly composed over the course of six years in the 1880s to stand as both the most complete exposition of his philosophy and as a concrete example of his aesthetic ideals.
Renowned for his study of aesthetic poetry and his essays on the history of the Renaissance, he was a central figure in the Aesthetic movement that swept England at the end of the nineteenth century.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Pater,Walter   (861 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Dialectics of Sense & Spirit in Walter Pater & James Joyce: Books: Frank Moliterno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Frank Moliterno's *The Dialectics of Sense and Spirit in Pater and Joyce* is the first book-length exploration into the aesthetic development of these writers that underscores the importance of Pater in Joyce's works.
Says Perry Meisel (New York University), Frank Moliterno's *The Dialectics of Sense and Spirit in Pater and Joyce* helps to complete a movement in modernist scholarship that is long overdue--the demonstration of Walter Pater's central importance as High British Modernism's chief Victorian precursor.
Moliterno presents often eye-opening accounts of Pater's decisive significance for Joyce in both his personal development and in the literary achievement that stems from it.
www.amazon.ca /Dialectics-Sense-Spirit-Walter-Pater/dp/0944318118   (365 words)

  
 Rereading Walter Pater - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Shuter first offers an account of the texts in the order in which they were written, paying close attention to the changes in Pater's thought and interests over time; he then returns to the earlier texts, showing how the later work serves, paradoxically, as an introduction to the earlier.
Drawing extensively on unpublished manuscript material, Shuter reveals that Pater himself authorised rereadings of his work in an effort to rewrite his own literary past and the past of his culture.
This new perspective on Pater's work uncovers patterns of continuity and anticipation that decisively alter our understanding of Pater and his writings.
www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521572215   (217 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Walter Pater: The Critic As Artist of Ideas: Livres en anglais: William Earl Buckler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Amazon.fr : Walter Pater: The Critic As Artist of Ideas: Livres en anglais: William Earl Buckler
Pater is indeed a "difficult writer," an aesthetician preoccupied with ideas, a realizer of the abstract.
As suggested by his subtitle, Buckler at once manages perceptive treatments of Pater's prose style and his system of ideas, his philosophy of criticism.
www.amazon.fr /Walter-Pater-Critic-Artist-Ideas/dp/0814710921   (313 words)

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