Walter Pater
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English writer, critic and essayist (1839–1894)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1839
- Died
- 1894
- Works
- 149
Top works
- Die renaissance
- Greek studies
- Plato and Platonism
- Selected writings
- Appreciations
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- 11
- Total plays
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Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Walter+Pater">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,511x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,454x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,223x
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Quotes
- “It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
- “Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”
- “Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
- “What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
- “Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”
- “Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1839-08-04 ) 4 August 1839, Stepney , London, Middlesex, England
- Died
- 30 July 1894 (1894-07-30) (aged 54), Oxford , England
- Resting place
- Holywell Cemetery
- Occupation
- Academic, essayist, writer
- Language
- English
- Alma mater
- The Queen's College, Oxford
- Genres
- Art criticism , literary criticism , literary fiction
- Literary movement
- Aestheticism
- Notable works
- The Renaissance (1873), Marius the Epicurean (1885)
- Notable awards
- Honorary LL.D , University of Glasgow (1894)
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Walter Pater, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) 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 (whether stimulating or subversive) of Aestheticism.
Early life
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