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Biography of Walter Horatio PaterName: Walter Horatio PaterBirth Date: August 4, 1839 Death Date: July 30, 1894 Place of Birth: London, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: writer Walter Horatio Pater The English author Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was the most influential figure in the Esthetic movement of the late 19th century. His writings reveal a mind of sensibility and discrimination, embodying its judgments in carefully wrought prose.By the 1860s and 1870s the younger generation of British intellectuals was beginning to react against the excessive weight of moral criteria prevalent in critical judgments on the fine arts. Walter Pater led the way in this reaction by stressing the diversity of artistic experience and the need for flexibility in judgments. He directed critical attention to discrimination of the special and essential character of each work of art or artistic personality and to precise analysis of the effect each produces upon the individual. In effect, he developed refinement of critical response into a philosophy of life.Pater was born at Shadwell, East London, on Aug. 4, 1839. His father, a surgeon of Dutch descent, died …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Reading The standard biography of Pater is Thomas Wright, The Life of Walter Pater (2 vols., 1907; repr. 1969). Another general introduction to his life and work and is Arthur Christopher Benson, Walter Pater (1906; repr. 1968). For studies of Pater's thought and criticism see Ruth C. Child, The Aesthetic of Walter pater (1940); Graham Hough, The Last Romantics (1949); and the relevant chapters in René Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, vol. 4: The Later Nineteenth Century (1965). See also Arthur Symons, A Study of Walter Pater (1932). Recommitted for background on the Esthetic movement are William Gaunt, The Aesthetic Adventure (1945), and Jerome Buckley, The Victorian Temper (1951).Donoghue, Denis, Walter Pater: lover of strange souls, New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1995. Levey, Michael, The case of Walter Pater, London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.Monsman, Gerald Cornelius, Walter Pater's art of autobiography, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Walter Pater, a life remembered, Calgary, Alta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 1987. |