Walter Pater (1839–1894)
Forfatter af Studies in the History of the Renaissance
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Walter Pater (born August4, 1839) was an Englaish essayist, critic and writer of fiction. He attended Queen's College, Oxford. His earliest work, an essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, appeared in 1866 in The Westminster Review; Pater soon became a regular contributor to a number of serious reviews, vis mere especially The Fortnightly, which published his essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Pico Della Mirandola, Botticelli, and the poetry of Michelangelo. All were included in his first, and perhaps most influential, book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873; reissued as The Renaissance, 1877). In 1885 Pater's only novel, Marius the Epicurean, appeared. Ostensibly, Marius is a historical novel, set in the time of Marcus Aurelius and tracing the philosophical development of its young protagonist and his gradual approach to Christianity. Practically, however, Marius is more a meditation of the philosophical choices that confronted Pater, or any thinker, during the late Victorian period. In light of the work's underrealized characterizations and the lack of any but intellectual action, it is difficult to justify calling it a novel in the usual sense of the term. Yet, as a highly polished prose piece, and as an argument for an austere yet intensely experienced way of life, it holds a singular place in Victorian literature. On July 30, 1894 Pater died suddenly in his Oxford home of heart failure brought on by rheumatic fever, at the age of 54. He was buried at Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston de Latour (Aesthetics Today) (1997) 50 eksemplarer
Sebastian van Storck 6 eksemplarer
Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 17) (2017) 6 eksemplarer
Selections 4 eksemplarer
Emerald Uthwart 3 eksemplarer
Imaginary portraits. A new collection 3 eksemplarer
Duke Carl of Rosenmold, An Imaginary Portrait 3 eksemplarer
The Works of Walter Pater, Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures (Cambridge Library Collection, Vol. 6) (2011) 2 eksemplarer
Les topiques d'Aristote et la dialectique platocienne 2 eksemplarer
The Works of Pater 2 eksemplarer
Denys l'Auxerrois; an imaginary portrait 1 eksemplar
The Pater calendar : a quotation from the works of Walter Horatio Pater, for every day in the year 1 eksemplar
The school of Giorgione : from 'The renaissance' 1 eksemplar
Walter Pater: Complete Writings: The Renaissance, Marius The Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, Plato and Platonism...… (2020) 1 eksemplar
Walter Pater: An Imaginative Sense of Fact 1 eksemplar
Mario el Epicúreo sus sensaciones y sus ideas 1 eksemplar
Leonardo Da Vinci Great Artists Collection 1 eksemplar
The Renaissance DUN 1 eksemplar
The Ecstatic Moment 1 eksemplar
The Essential Walter Pater Collection ( Kindle ) 1 eksemplar
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Bidragyder — 249 eksemplarer
Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1981) — Bidragyder — 173 eksemplarer
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Bidragyder — 171 eksemplarer
The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates (Decadence from Dedalus) (2004) — Bidragyder — 51 eksemplarer
The Bibelot, Volume XVIII: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and… (1912) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Die englische Literatur 08 in Text und Darstellung. 19. Jahrhundert 2 (1982) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
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- Pater, Walter Horatio
- Fødselsdato
- 1839-08-04
- Dødsdag
- 1894-07-30
- Begravelsessted
- St Cross Churchyard, Holywell, Oxfordshire, England
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Stepney, London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- heart failure
- Bopæl
- Stepney, London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Queen's College, Oxford University (BA|1862)
The King's School, Canterbury
Enfield Grammar School - Erhverv
- essayist
critic
writer
professor - Relationer
- Wilde, Oscar (student)
Pater, Clara (sister) - Organisationer
- Brasenose College, Oxford University
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