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Walter Pater
AuthorBooks · Second hand1839-1894
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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About Walter Pater
Birth
1839
Death
1894
First book
1885
Years writing
141
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.
Walter Pater was a key figure in the 19th-century British aesthetic movement.
His most famous work, Marius the Epicurean, deeply explores sensations and philosophical ideas.
Beyond being a novelist, he was an influential art critic and historian.
Born in Shadwell in 1839, he dedicated his life to teaching and literature.
His literary legacy includes a prolific output of nearly 150 published works.
