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Walter Pater


Born
in Stepney, London, England, The United Kingdom
August 04, 1839

Died
July 30, 1894

Genre
Essays, Literary Criticism, Fiction


People know British writer Walter Horatio Pater for his volumes of aesthetic criticism, including Appreciations (1889).

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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,502 ratings · 283 reviews · 271 distinct works • Similar authors
The Renaissance: Studies in...
3.94 avg rating — 1,657 ratings — published 1873 — 383 editions
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Marius the Epicurean
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3.55 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 1885 — 17 editions
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Plato and Platonism
3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1893 — 4 editions
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Appreciations, With an Essa...
3.69 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1890 — 148 editions
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Imaginary Portraits: with T...
3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1887 — 7 editions
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Giordano Bruno
3.40 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010 — 30 editions
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Selected Writings
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Aesthetic Poetry
3.23 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions
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Cupid and Psyche
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Greek Studies: a Series of ...
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“To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
― Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
tags: ecstasy, success
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“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.”
― Walter Pater
tags: art, music
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“Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ”
― Walter Pater
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