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    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...
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  • his sensations and ideas is a historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater (his only completed full-length fiction), written between 1881 and 1884...
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  • painter Walter Pater (1839–1893), English essayist, critic and humanist Pater (film), a 2011 French film Pater Moeskroen, Dutch Folkband Stade Pater Te Hono...
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    1880s, gaining prominence and the support of notable writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. Aestheticism challenged the values of mainstream Victorian...
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    compared to later scholars from Walter Pater through Michel Foucault, to the present. See Adam Lee, The Platonism of Walter Pater: Embodied Equity (Oxford University...
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  • artistic history of the late-Victorian period. Harold Bloom, a scholar of Walter Pater, contended that the character of Housman and those in his circle are...
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    Thomas Browne, Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Brontë, Thomas de Quincey, and Walter Pater as influences.[page needed] Among her...
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  • the death of her brother, essayist and Renaissance scholar Walter Pater in 1894, Clara Pater moved to Kensington, London, where she resumed teaching as...
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    Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, chapter 5 (1885) Gutenberg Project: Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, Vol. 1 (plain text) Blackmask: Walter Pater...
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    influenced by art critic Walter Pater, a friend of Bywater's whose "pre-Socratic hero" was Heraclitus. Harold Bloom noted that "Pater praises Plato for Classic...
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    Walter Hahn (born 20 August 1987) is an Austrian professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring...
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    Edward Gibbon, John Henry Newman, R.W. Church, James Anthony Froude, Walter Pater, Lord Morley of Blackburn. London: John Murray, 1909, p. 59. Cecil, Algernon...
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    an interpretation that was first proposed by the English art critic Walter Pater (1839–1894) and is now widely accepted, the person protected by God's...
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    with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable...
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    the creator, who Walter Pater states "comes with the forms of things to be, woman and her progeny, in the fold of his garment". Pater wrote of the depiction...
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    tradition of earlier critics such as William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walter Pater, A. C. Bradley, and Samuel Johnson, describing Johnson in The Western...
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  • omnipotent deity Marius the Epicurean, 1885 philosophical novel written by Walter Pater Epicurean (album), a compilation of early work by The Orchids, released...
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    supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music and travel. Violet...
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  • slogan is associated, in the history of English art and letters, with Walter Pater and his followers in the Aesthetic Movement, which was self-consciously...
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  • notes a link to a similar approach and emphasis in the British writer Walter Pater whose late Renaissance essay he quotes, "The service of speculative culture...
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    criticism, but Wilde denied this in his 1895 trials, only ceding that critic Walter Pater, whom Wilde respected, did write several letters to him "and in consequence...
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  • Ross Williamson were editors. Contributors included G. K. Chesterton, Walter Pater, Gertrude Atherton, Guy Thorne, J. M. Barrie, Edward Thomas, W. B. Yeats...
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    a year, as his peers often achieved during their peaks of activity. Walter Pater famously called Flaubert the "martyr of style". In the assessment of...
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    like Oscar Wilde who have stressed art for art's sake. Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Harold Bloom African-American literary theory American pragmatism and...
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  • 1826) July 22 – Julius von Bose, Prussian general (b. 1809) July 30 – Walter Pater, English essayist, critic (b. 1839) August 1 – Joseph Holt, Union Army...
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    Misérables Marius, protagonist of the novel Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater Marius Von Hagen, one of the four male leads in the otome game Tears...
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    published studies of Hardy, Shakespeare, Thomas Gray, Dorothy Osborne and Walter Pater. As well as his literary studies he also published a two-volume historical...
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  • Christ onto the cross. This tutor, Walter Pater, was highly influential, but agnostic in his beliefs. Similar to Pater's Conclusion to The Renaissance, Hopkins's...
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    The Interpretation of Art: Essays on the Art Criticism of John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Clive Bell, Robert Fry, and Herbert Read. University of California Press...
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  • of basic cultural and literary assumptions derived on one hand from Walter Pater, and on the other from Walt Whitman." Kaylor uses the definition "a cluster...
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