Walter Pater

Walter Pater

Walter Pater (1839-1894) was educated at the Kings’ School, Canterbury, and at Oxford, where he was later elected a fellow of Brasenose College. His publication of The Renaissance in 1873 caused a stir within the walls of the university, as well as outside, for its positive views on hedonism. Despite controversy, he became a formative influence on the aesthetic movement of the late nineteenth century.

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The Renaissance
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The Renaissance
  • By: Walter Pater
  • Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
  • Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
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Published to great acclaim in 1873, Walter Pater’s compendium of idiosyncratic, impressionistic essays on the Renaissance gained him a reputation as a daring modern philosopher. Oscar Wilde called it the “holy writ of beauty.” It... Read more

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