Walter Pater (1839–1894)
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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, mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Walter Pater
Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston de Latour (Aesthetics Today) (1997) 50 Exemplare
Sebastian van Storck 6 Exemplare
Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 17) (2017) 6 Exemplare
Selections 4 Exemplare
Emerald Uthwart 3 Exemplare
Imaginary portraits. A new collection 3 Exemplare
Duke Carl of Rosenmold, An Imaginary Portrait 3 Exemplare
The Works of Walter Pater, Plato and Platonism: A Series of Lectures (Cambridge Library Collection, Vol. 6) (2011) 2 Exemplare
The Works of Pater 2 Exemplare
Denys l'Auxerrois; an imaginary portrait 1 Exemplar
The Pater calendar : a quotation from the works of Walter Horatio Pater, for every day in the year 1 Exemplar
Walter Pater: Complete Writings: The Renaissance, Marius The Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, Plato and Platonism...… (2020) 1 Exemplar
Walter Pater: An Imaginative Sense of Fact 1 Exemplar
Leonardo Da Vinci Great Artists Collection 1 Exemplar
The Renaissance DUN 1 Exemplar
The Ecstatic Moment 1 Exemplar
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Mitwirkender — 250 Exemplare
Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1981) — Mitwirkender — 173 Exemplare
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Mitwirkender — 170 Exemplare
The Dedalus Book Of English Decadence: Vile Emperors And Elegant Degenerates (Decadence from Dedalus) (2004) — Mitwirkender — 51 Exemplare
The Bibelot, Volume XVIII: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and… (1912) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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- Pater, Walter Horatio
- Geburtstag
- 1839-08-04
- Todestag
- 1894-07-30
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- St Cross Churchyard, Holywell, Oxfordshire, England
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Stepney, London, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Todesursache
- heart failure
- Wohnorte
- Stepney, London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Ausbildung
- Queen's College, Oxford University (BA|1862)
The King's School, Canterbury
Enfield Grammar School - Berufe
- essayist
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professor - Beziehungen
- Wilde, Oscar (student)
Pater, Clara (sister) - Organisationen
- Brasenose College, Oxford University
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