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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

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

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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,635 ratings · 313 reviews · 119 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 1,727 ratings — published 1873 — 462 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater, Michael Levey 3.55 avg rating — 700 ratings — published 1885 — 313 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plato and Platonism 3.96 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1893 — 185 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appreciations, With an Essay on Style 3.71 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1890 — 178 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giordano Bruno 3.38 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary Portraits: with The Child in the House and Gaston de Latour 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1887 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings by Walter Pater, Harold Bloom (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cupid and Psyche by Walter Pater, Errol Le Cain (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aesthetic Poetry 3.21 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greek Studies: a Series of Essays 3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2002 — 158 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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