Walter Pater (1839–1894)
Autore di Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Sull'Autore
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, mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston de Latour (Aesthetics Today) (1997) 49 copie
Sebastian van Storck 6 copie
Selections 4 copie
Emerald Uthwart 3 copie
The Works of Walter Pater, Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures (Cambridge Library Collection, Vol. 6) (2011) 2 copie
The Works of Pater 2 copie
The Pater calendar : a quotation from the works of Walter Horatio Pater, for every day in the year 1 copia
Walter Pater: Complete Writings: The Renaissance, Marius The Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, Plato and Platonism...… (2020) 1 copia
The Renaissance DUN 1 copia
The Ecstatic Moment 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Collaboratore — 250 copie
Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1981) — Collaboratore — 172 copie
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Collaboratore — 170 copie
The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates (Decadence from Dedalus) (2004) — Collaboratore — 52 copie
The Bibelot, Volume XVIII: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and… (1912) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Pater, Walter Horatio
- Data di nascita
- 1839-08-04
- Data di morte
- 1894-07-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St Cross Churchyard, Holywell, Oxfordshire, England
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Stepney, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- heart failure
- Luogo di residenza
- Stepney, London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- Queen's College, Oxford University (BA|1862)
The King's School, Canterbury
Enfield Grammar School - Attività lavorative
- essayist
critic
writer
professor - Relazioni
- Wilde, Oscar (student)
Pater, Clara (sister) - Organizzazioni
- Brasenose College, Oxford University
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 51
- Opere correlate
- 17
- Utenti
- 2,527
- Popolarità
- #10,155
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 298
- Lingue
- 10
- Preferito da
- 9